The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 31
He sent a message to the king to beg for an audience, and received a reply that he was to go into the great hall, where he would find his Majesty.
Who acts: man · What happens: send, beg, receive, be, find · To what, where: message, king, reply, great hall, Majesty
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 message | det |
| 4 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 king | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 beg | mark |
| 9 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sent | advcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 audience | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 audience | det |
| 12 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beg | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 received | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 received | cc |
| 15 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sent | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 reply | det |
| 17 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 received | obj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 go | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 go | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 go | cop |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 go | mark |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 received | advcl |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 hall | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hall | det |
| 25 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hall | amod |
| 26 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 go | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 find | punct |
| 28 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 31 find | advmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 find | nsubj |
| 30 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 find | aux |
| 31 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 go | conj |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 33 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 find | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | man | a message | the king | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme to king=Destination | |||
| 2 | beg speech: request | to-infinitive | man not said here | for a audience | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for audience=Topic | ||||
| 3 | receive | past | a reply | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reply=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | man | the great hall | go property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | find | would | man | man's Majesty | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent majesty=Topic |
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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