The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 43

“Indeed, sire,” said the prince, “I was myself much annoyed at their destruction; but my servant had begged to direct everything on the journey and I had promised him that he should do so.

Who acts: sire, servant, prince · What happens: say, be, beg, direct, promise, do · To what, where: prince, sire, servant, everything, journey · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sire, servant, prince), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
2	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	4 sire	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Indeed	punct
4	sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sire	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 sire	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 prince	det
9	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 annoyed	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 annoyed	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 annoyed	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 myself	cop
14	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 I	conj
15	much	much	ADV	_	16 annoyed	advmod
16	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	advcl
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 destruction	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 destruction	nmod:poss
19	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 annoyed	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 begged	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 begged	cc
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 servant	nmod:poss
23	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 begged	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 begged	aux
25	begged	beg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 said	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 direct	mark
27	direct	direct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 begged	xcomp
28	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	27 direct	obj
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 journey	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 journey	det
31	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 direct	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 promised	cc
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 promised	nsubj:pass
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 promised	aux
35	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 begged	conj
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 promised	iobj
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 do	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 do	nsubj
39	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 do	aux
40	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 promised	ccomp
41	so	so	ADV	_	40 do	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	sire	the prince			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prince=Topic
2	is a in a quote	past	sire not said here	sire			tree rules
3	beg speech: request in a quote	past · perfect · passive		my servant			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
4	direct not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	my servant not said here	everything		the journey	vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent everything=Theme on journey=Eventuality
5	promise speech: promise in a quote	past · perfect · passive		sire	servant		tree rules
6	do in a quote	should	sire				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	destroy in a quote		prince				nom destruction «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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