The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 68

He tried to reason with his son, and told him that during all these years he had been looking forward to his return, in order to resign his throne and its cares, which pressed so heavily upon him.

Who acts: king, throne, order · What happens: try, tell, look, resign, press, return · To what, where: king, throne · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (king, throne, order), 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 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 reason	case
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tried	obl
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 son	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 son	nmod:poss
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reason	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 told	cc
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tried	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 him	obj
13	during	during	ADP	_	16 years	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 years	det:predet
15	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	16 years	det
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 told	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 looking	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 looking	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 looking	aux
20	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 told	ccomp
21	forward	forward	ADV	_	20 looking	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 return	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 return	nmod:poss
24	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 looking	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 resign	punct
26	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	29 resign	mark
27	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 in	fixed
28	to	to	PART	_	29 resign	mark
29	resign	resign	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 looking	conj
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 throne	nmod:poss
31	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 resign	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 cares	cc
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 cares	nmod:poss
34	cares	care	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 throne	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 pressed	punct
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 pressed	nsubj
37	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 throne	parataxis
38	so	so	ADV	_	39 heavily	advmod
39	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	37 pressed	advmod
40	upon	upon	ADP	_	41 him	case
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 pressed	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	king				to reason with king's son	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	tell speech: assert	past	king not said here		king	year		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	look	past · perfect · progressive	king				to king's return; forward property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to return=Theme
4	resign	to-infinitive	king not said here	king's throne and order's cares				vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent throne=Theme
5	press	past	king's throne and order's cares				upon king; heavily property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
6	return		king					nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
7	care		order					nom care «act intransitive»: 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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