The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 51

When the battle was over, the king sent for him to thank him for his timely help, and to ask what reward he should give him.

Who acts: battle, king, knight · What happens: be, send, thank, ask, give, help · To what, where: knight, reward, king

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (battle, king, knight), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 over	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 battle	det
3	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 over	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 over	cop
5	over	over	ADV	_	9 sent	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 over	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sent	nsubj
9	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sent	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 thank	mark
13	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sent	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thank	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 help	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 help	nmod:poss
17	timely	timely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 help	amod
18	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thank	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ask	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 ask	cc
21	to	to	PART	_	22 ask	mark
22	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sent	advcl
23	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	24 reward	det
24	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ask	obj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 give	nsubj
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 give	aux
27	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 reward	acl:relcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 give	iobj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the battle			over property	tree rules
2	send	past	the king			for knight	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	thank speech: thank	to-infinitive	the king not said here		knight	for knight's timely help	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for help=Attribute
4	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	the king not said here	what reward			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent reward=Recipient
5	give	should	knight	what reward not said here	king		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	help		knight				nom help «act transitive»: poss=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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