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The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 9

“His Excellency the Count Piro wished the princess to choose them for herself,” answered the fox, and the king nodded his approval.

Who acts: Excellency, fox, king · What happens: wish, choose, answer, nod, approve · To what, where: princess, servants, approval · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Excellency, fox, king), 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

punctnmod:possnsubjdetcompoundapposdetobjmarkaclobjcaseoblpunctpunctparataxisdetobjpunctccdetnsubjparataxisnmod:possobjpunctroot“PUNCTHisPRONExcellencyNOUNtheDETCountPROPNPiroPROPNwishedVERBtheDETprincessNOUNtoPARTchooseVERBthemPRONforADPherselfPRON,PUNCT”PUNCTansweredVERBtheDETfoxNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETkingNOUNnoddedVERBhisPRONapprovalNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_7 wishedpunct
2HishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs3 Excellencynmod:poss
3ExcellencyexcellencyNOUNNumber=Sing7 wishednsubj
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 Pirodet
5CountCountPROPNNumber=Sing6 Pirocompound
6PiroPiroPROPNNumber=Sing3 Excellencyappos
7wishedwishVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 princessdet
9princessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing7 wishedobj
10totoPART_11 choosemark
11choosechooseVERBVerbForm=Inf9 princessacl
12themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs11 chooseobj
13forforADP_14 herselfcase
14herselfherselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes11 chooseobl
15,,PUNCT_7 wishedpunct
16”"PUNCT_7 wishedpunct
17answeredanswerVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 wishedparataxis
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 foxdet
19foxfoxNOUNNumber=Sing17 answeredobj
20,,PUNCT_24 noddedpunct
21andandCCONJ_24 noddedcc
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 kingdet
23kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing24 noddednsubj
24noddednodVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 wishedparataxis
25hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 approvalnmod:poss
26approvalapprovalNOUNNumber=Sing24 noddedobj
27..PUNCT_7 wishedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1wish in a quotepastking's Excellencythe princesstree rules
2choose in a quoteto-infinitiveking's Excellency not said hereservants = servantfor Excellencyvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Theme for herself=Beneficiary
3answer speech: assertpastthe foxvn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4nodpastthe kingking's approvalvn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent approval=Patient
5approvekingnom approval «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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