The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 50

Next morning they brought him before the Emperor, who treated him exactly as the King with the golden bird had done, and commanded him to be beheaded on the following day.

Who acts: guards, golden bird · What happens: bring, treat, do, command, behead, follow · To what, where: horse · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (guards, golden bird), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morning	amod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brought	obl:unmarked
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 brought	nsubj
4	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 brought	obj
6	before	before	ADP	_	8 Emperor	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Emperor	det
8	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 treated	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 treated	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 treated	nsubj
11	treated	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brought	parataxis
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 treated	obj
13	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	16 King	advmod
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 King	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 King	det
16	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 treated	obl
17	with	with	SCONJ	_	22 done	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bird	det
19	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bird	amod
20	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 done	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 done	aux
22	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 treated	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 commanded	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 commanded	cc
25	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brought	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 commanded	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	29 beheaded	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 beheaded	aux:pass
29	beheaded	behead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 commanded	advcl
30	on	on	ADP	_	33 day	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 day	det
32	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 day	amod
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 beheaded	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	guards = guard		horse	morning		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
2	treat	past		horse		before the Emperor	as the King	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Theme as king=Attribute
3	do	past · perfect	the golden bird					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	command	past	guards = guard not said here	horse				vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	behead	to-infinitive · passive	guards = guard not said here			day		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»
6	follow	gerund						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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