The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 135
He entertained King Archidej’s ambassadors hospitably, and sent his blessing to his daughter, but he could not be brought to attend the wedding.
Who acts: king · What happens: entertain, send, not bring, attend, bless · To what, where: ambassadors, blessing, daughter, king, wedding
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 entertained | nsubj |
| 2 | entertained | entertain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Archidej | compound |
| 4 | Archidej | Archidej | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ambassadors | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Archidej | case |
| 6 | ambassadors | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 entertained | obj |
| 7 | hospitably | hospitably | ADV | _ | 2 entertained | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sent | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sent | cc |
| 10 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 entertained | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 12 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sent | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 daughter | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sent | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 brought | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 brought | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 brought | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 brought | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 brought | advmod |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 brought | aux:pass |
| 22 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 entertained | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 attend | mark |
| 24 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 brought | xcomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wedding | det |
| 26 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 attend | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 entertained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entertain | past | king | King Archidej's ambassadors | hospitably property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ambassador=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | send | past | king not said here | king's blessing | king's daughter | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blessing=Theme to daughter=Destination | |||
| 3 | not bring | could · passive | king | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | attend | to-infinitive | the wedding | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wedding=Goal | |||||
| 5 | bless | king | nom blessing «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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