The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 65

“Your Majesty, as you seemed to like the first basket of pears, I have brought you some more,” said he, “with my master, the Count Piro’s humble respects.”

Who acts: Majesty, fox · What happens: seem, like, bring, say · To what, where: first basket, more, you, humble respects · 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, fox), 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 seemed	punct
2	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 Majesty	nmod:poss
3	Majesty	majesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seemed	nsubj:outer
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 seemed	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 seemed	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 seemed	nsubj
7	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 like	mark
9	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 seemed	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 basket	det
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 basket	amod
12	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 like	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 pears	case
14	pears	pear	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 basket	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 brought	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 brought	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 brought	aux
18	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 said	ccomp
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 brought	obj
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 more	det
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 brought	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 more	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 brought	punct
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seemed	parataxis
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 said	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 respects	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	37 respects	punct
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 master	case
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 master	nmod:poss
30	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 respects	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 master	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Piro	det
33	Count	Count	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Piro	compound
34	Piro	Piro	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 respects	nmod:poss
35	’s	's	PART	_	34 Piro	case
36	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 respects	amod
37	respects	respects	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 said	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 seemed	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	seem in a quote	past	Your Majesty			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	like in a quote	to-infinitive	Your Majesty not said here	the first basket of pears		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot basket=Theme
3	bring in a quote	present · perfect	fox	some more	you	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination more=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	fox	the Count Piro's humble respects		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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