Fifty Famous Stories Retold, IV. the Cat., sentence 3

The captain wanted very much to trade with the king of the country; and it was not long before the king sent word for him to come to the palace and see him.

Who acts: captain, king · What happens: want, trade, not be, send, come, see · To what, where: much, word, palace, king

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, IV. the Cat.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captain, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 captain	det
2	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wanted	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 trade	mark
7	trade	trade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 much	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 king	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trade	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 country	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 country	det
13	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 king	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 sent	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 long	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 long	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 long	cop
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 long	advmod
19	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 sent	advmod
20	before	before	SCONJ	_	23 sent	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 king	det
22	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sent	nsubj
23	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wanted	conj
24	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sent	obj
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sent	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 come	mark
28	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 sent	advcl
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 palace	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 palace	det
31	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 come	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 see	cc
33	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 come	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 see	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	past	the captain	much			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot much=Theme
2	trade	to-infinitive				with the king of the country	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with king=Co-Agent
3	not is	past	captain			long property	tree rules
4	send	past	the king	word		for Fitzwarren	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
5	come	to-infinitive	the king not said here		the palace		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location
6	see	infinitive	the king not said here	king			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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