The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 47

“Your Majesty, my master sends you a few of his best pears, and begs you will graciously accept them,” he said, laying the basket at the feet of the king.

Who acts: Majesty, you, Boy · What happens: send, beg, accept, say, lay · To what, where: few, you, Majesty, basket, feet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Majesty, you, Boy), 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 sends	punct
2	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 Majesty	nmod:poss
3	Majesty	majesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sends	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 master	punct
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 master	nmod:poss
6	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Majesty	conj
7	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 sends	obj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 few	det
10	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sends	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 pears	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 pears	nmod:poss
13	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 pears	amod
14	pears	pear	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 few	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 begs	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 begs	cc
17	begs	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sends	conj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 accept	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 accept	aux
20	graciously	graciously	ADV	_	21 accept	advmod
21	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 begs	ccomp
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 accept	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 accept	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 begs	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 said	nsubj
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 begs	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 laying	punct
28	laying	lay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 said	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 basket	det
30	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 laying	obj
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 feet	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 feet	det
33	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 laying	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 king	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 king	det
36	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 feet	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sends	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	send in a quote	present	Your Majesty and my master	a few of Boy's best pears	you			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination few=Theme
2	beg speech: request in a quote	present	Your Majesty and my master not said here					vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	accept in a quote	future	you	Majesty			graciously property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	Boy					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	lay	gerund	Boy not said here	the basket		the feet of the king		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent basket=Theme at foot=Destination

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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