The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 90

The king remained patiently in his palace, feeling sure that this time Maria could not escape him; and he said to his pages, “If a gentleman should come here with his daughter and ask to be allowed to speak with me, put the young lady in my room and see she does not leave it.”

Who acts: king, gentleman, daughter · What happens: remain, feel, not escape, say, come, ask · To what, where: palace, king, pages, young lady, room · Speech: someone speaks here

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, gentleman, daughter), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 remained	nsubj
3	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	patiently	patiently	ADV	_	3 remained	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 palace	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 palace	nmod:poss
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 remained	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 feeling	punct
9	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 remained	advcl
10	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 feeling	xcomp
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 escape	mark
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 time	det
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 escape	obl:unmarked
14	Maria	Maria	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 time	appos
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 escape	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 escape	advmod
17	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 sure	ccomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 escape	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 remained	parataxis
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 pages	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 pages	nmod:poss
25	pages	page	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 said	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 come	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	32 come	punct
28	If	if	SCONJ	_	32 come	mark
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 gentleman	det
30	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 come	nsubj
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 come	aux
32	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	ccomp
33	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 come	advmod
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 daughter	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 daughter	nmod:poss
36	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 come	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 ask	cc
38	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 come	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	41 allowed	mark
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 allowed	aux:pass
41	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 ask	ccomp
42	to	to	PART	_	43 speak	mark
43	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 allowed	xcomp
44	with	with	ADP	_	45 me	case
45	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 speak	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 put	punct
47	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 ask	conj
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 lady	det
49	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 lady	amod
50	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 put	obj
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 room	case
52	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 room	nmod:poss
53	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 put	obl
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 see	cc
55	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 put	conj
56	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 leave	nsubj
57	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	59 leave	aux
58	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	59 leave	advmod
59	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 see	ccomp
60	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 leave	obj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	38 ask	punct
62	”	"	PUNCT	_	32 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	past	the king			king's palace		patiently property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location
2	feel	gerund	the king not said here					sure property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	not escape	could	the king not said here	king			time		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Initial_Location
4	say speech: assert	past	king		king's pages				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to page=Recipient clause=Topic
5	come a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	should	a gentleman			here		with king's daughter	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	ask speech: ask in a quote	infinitive	a gentleman not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	allow not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive · passive							vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Eventuality
8	speak speech: other not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive						with king	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with i=Co-Agent
9	put in a quote	infinitive	a gentleman not said here	the young lady		my room			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lady=Theme in room=Destination
10	see in a quote	infinitive	a gentleman not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
11	not leave in a quote	present · do-support	daughter	room					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
12	page		king						nom page «communication 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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