The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 36
One day the king sent for the merchant, who was a widower, to give him directions about a journey he wished the good man to take.
Who acts: king, merchant · What happens: send, be, give, wish, take · To what, where: widower, directions, king, good man
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, merchant), 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 | 5 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 merchant | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 merchant | det |
| 8 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 widower | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 widower | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 widower | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 widower | det |
| 13 | widower | widower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 merchant | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 give | punct |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 give | mark |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sent | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 give | iobj |
| 18 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 give | obj |
| 19 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 journey | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 journey | det |
| 21 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 directions | nmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 wished | nsubj |
| 23 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 journey | acl:relcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 man | det |
| 25 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 man | amod |
| 26 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wished | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 take | mark |
| 28 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 man | acl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the king | day | for the merchant and a widower | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the merchant and a widower | a widower | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | the king not said here | directions | king | about a journey | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient direction=Theme | ||
| 4 | wish | past | king | the good man | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot man=Theme | ||||
| 5 | take | to-infinitive | king not said here | the good man not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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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