Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 74

But when the affairs of his kingdom were all settled, King Thasus laid aside his purple robe and crown, and sceptre, and bade his worthiest subjects distribute justice to the people in his stead.

Who acts: King, bade · What happens: settle, lay, distribute · To what, where: affairs, sceptre, justice, people

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, bade), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	14 laid	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 settled	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 affairs	det
4	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 settled	nsubj:pass
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 kingdom	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 kingdom	nmod:poss
7	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 affairs	nmod
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 settled	aux:pass
9	all	all	ADV	_	10 settled	advmod
10	settled	settle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 laid	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 settled	punct
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 laid	nsubj
13	Thasus	Thasus	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 King	flat
14	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	aside	aside	ADP	_	18 robe	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 robe	nmod:poss
17	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 robe	amod
18	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 laid	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 crown	cc
20	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 robe	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sceptre	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sceptre	cc
23	sceptre	sceptre	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 laid	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 distribute	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 distribute	cc
26	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 distribute	nsubj
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 subjects	nmod:poss
28	worthiest	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 subjects	amod
29	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 bade	nmod
30	distribute	distribute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 laid	conj
31	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 distribute	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 people	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 people	det
34	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 distribute	obl
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 stead	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 stead	nmod:poss
37	stead	stead	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 people	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	settle	past · passive		the affairs of city's kingdom		all property	vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location
2	lay	past	King	sceptre		aside king's purple robe and crown	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	distribute	present	bade king's worthiest subjects	justice	the people in king's stead		vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent justice=Theme to people=Recipient

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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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