The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 30

One day, the sultan’s brother happened to be passing through Alexandria, and wanted to have one of his state robes altered, so he sent for the master tailor, who handed the robe over to Labakan as his best workman.

Who acts: One day, Labakan, master tailor · What happens: happen, pass, want, have, alter, send · To what, where: Alexandria, one, state robes, robe, Labakan

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One day, Labakan, master tailor), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 happened	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sultan	det
5	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brother	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 sultan	case
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 happened	nsubj
8	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	11 passing	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 passing	aux
11	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 happened	advcl
12	through	through	ADP	_	13 Alexandria	case
13	Alexandria	Alexandria	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 passing	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wanted	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 wanted	cc
16	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 happened	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 have	mark
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 wanted	xcomp
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 have	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 robes	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 robes	nmod:poss
22	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 robes	compound
23	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 one	nmod
24	altered	alter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 robes	acl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sent	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	28 sent	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sent	nsubj
28	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 wanted	conj
29	for	for	ADP	_	32 tailor	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 tailor	det
31	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tailor	compound
32	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sent	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 handed	punct
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 handed	nsubj
35	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 tailor	acl:relcl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 robe	det
37	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 handed	obj
38	over	over	ADV	_	35 handed	advmod
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 Labakan	case
40	Labakan	Labakan	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 handed	obl
41	as	as	ADP	_	44 workman	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 workman	nmod:poss
43	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	44 workman	amod
44	workman	workman	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 handed	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	past	One day					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pass	to-infinitive · progressive	One day not said here			Alexandria		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through alexandria=Location
3	want	past						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	have not said to happen	to-infinitive		one of Labakan's state robes				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
5	alter	participle		Labakan's state robes not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	send	past	Labakan				for the master tailor	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	hand over	past	the master tailor	the robe	Labakan		as Labakan's best workman; over property	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent robe=Theme to labakan=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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