The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 4

Take gold and silver with you, and a large retinue of servants, as beseems two noble princes, and go through the world till you find out who it is that steals my golden apples, and, if possible, bring the thief to me that I may punish him as he deserves.’

Who acts: you, I, king · What happens: take, beseem, go, find out, be, bring · To what, where: gold, two noble princes, world, thief, me, king

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 silver	cc
4	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gold	conj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Take	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 retinue	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 retinue	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 retinue	det
10	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 retinue	amod
11	retinue	retinue	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 servants	case
13	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 retinue	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 beseems	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 beseems	mark
16	beseems	beseem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	parataxis
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 princes	nummod
18	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 princes	amod
19	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 beseems	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 go	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 go	cc
22	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 beseems	conj
23	through	through	ADP	_	25 world	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 world	det
25	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 go	obl
26	till	till	SCONJ	_	28 find	mark
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 find	nsubj
28	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 go	advcl
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 find	compound:prt
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 steals	nsubj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 steals	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 steals	cop
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 steals	mark
34	steals	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 find	conj
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 apples	nmod:poss
36	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 apples	amod
37	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 steals	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 bring	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 bring	cc
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 and	punct
41	if	if	SCONJ	_	42 possible	mark
42	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 bring	advcl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 possible	punct
44	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 go	conj
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 thief	det
46	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 bring	obj
47	to	to	ADP	_	48 me	case
48	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 bring	obl
49	that	that	SCONJ	_	52 punish	mark
50	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 punish	nsubj
51	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 punish	aux
52	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 bring	advcl
53	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 punish	obj
54	as	as	SCONJ	_	56 deserves	mark
55	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 deserves	nsubj
56	deserves	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 punish	advcl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct
58	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	gold and silver			with you; a large retinue of servants obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme
2	beseem	present		two noble princes				tree rules
3	go	present				the world		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through world=Initial_Location
4	find out	present	you					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
5	is	present					steal property	tree rules
6	bring	infinitive		the thief	me			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thief=Theme to i=Destination
7	punish	may	I	king				vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
8	deserve	present	king					tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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