The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 53

This time he presented himself before the king and told him that the youth was so puffed up with what he had done that he had declared he would seize the king’s throne for himself.

Who acts: enemy, youth · What happens: present, tell, puff up, do, declare, seize · To what, where: enemy, youth, throne · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (enemy, youth), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 presented	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 presented	nsubj
4	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 presented	obj
6	before	before	ADP	_	8 king	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 presented	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 told	cc
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 presented	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 puffed	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 youth	det
14	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 puffed	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 puffed	aux:pass
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 puffed	advmod
17	puffed	puff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 told	ccomp
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 puffed	compound:prt
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 what	case
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 puffed	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 done	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 done	aux
23	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 what	acl:relcl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 declared	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 declared	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 declared	aux
27	declared	declare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 done	advcl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 seize	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 seize	aux
30	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 declared	ccomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 king	det
32	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 throne	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 king	case
34	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 seize	obj
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 himself	case
36	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 seize	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 presented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	present	past	enemy	enemy		before the king; time		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	enemy not said here		enemy			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	puff up	past · passive		the youth				vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Source
4	do	past · perfect	youth					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	declare speech: other	past · perfect	youth					vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	seize	would	youth	the king's throne			for youth	vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent throne=Theme for himself=Beneficiary

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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