The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 87

He threw himself down before the throne and asked what was the king’s pleasure.

Who acts: Omar, pleasure, king · What happens: throw down, ask, be, please · To what, where: Omar, throne · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Omar, pleasure, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 threw	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	2 threw	compound:prt
5	before	before	ADP	_	7 throne	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 throne	det
7	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 asked	cc
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 threw	conj
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 asked	ccomp
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 what	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pleasure	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 king	case
15	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 what	nsubj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	throw down	past	Omar	Omar	the throne	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme before throne=Destination
2	ask speech: ask	past	Omar not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	the king's pleasure			tree rules
4	please		the king			nom pleasure «feeling 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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