More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 52

So at last the Abbot consented, and sent him to London in his most splendid array, and he approached King John with all his retinue as before, but dressed in his simple monk's dress and his cowl over his face.

Who acts: last, Abbot · What happens: consent, send, approach, dress · To what, where: Abbot, London, splendid array, John, dress

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last, Abbot), 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 consented	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 consented	nsubj:outer
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Abbot	det
5	Abbot	Abbot	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 last	nsubj
6	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sent	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sent	cc
9	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 consented	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sent	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 London	case
12	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sent	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	17 array	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 array	nmod:poss
15	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	16 splendid	advmod
16	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 array	amod
17	array	array	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sent	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 approached	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 approached	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 approached	nsubj
21	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 consented	conj
22	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 John	nmod:desc
23	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 approached	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 retinue	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 retinue	det:predet
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 retinue	nmod:poss
27	retinue	retinue	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 approached	obl
28	as	as	ADP	_	29 before	case
29	before	before	ADV	_	21 approached	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 dressed	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 dressed	cc
32	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 consented	advcl
33	in	in	ADP	_	38 dress	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 monk	nmod:poss
35	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 monk	amod
36	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 dress	nmod:poss
37	's	's	PART	_	36 monk	case
38	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dressed	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 cowl	cc
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 cowl	nmod:poss
41	cowl	cowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 dress	conj
42	over	over	ADP	_	44 face	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 face	nmod:poss
44	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dressed	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 consented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	consent	past	last					vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	send	past	last not said here	Abbot	London	Abbot's splendid array		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to london=Destination
3	approach	past	Abbot	John King			with Abbot's retinue	vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent john=Theme with retinue=Instrument
4	dress	participle	last not said here			Abbot's simple monk's dress and Abbot's cowl	over Abbot's face	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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