The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 70

We come from the country of the great and good King Archidej, and we bring foreign wares—rich brocades, carpets, and costly jewels, which we wish to show to your king and the princess.

Who acts: We · What happens: come, bring, wish, show · To what, where: country, foreign wares, rich brocades, king

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 (We), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 country	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 country	det
5	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 come	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	12 Archidej	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Archidej	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Archidej	amod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 good	cc
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 great	conj
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Archidej	compound
12	Archidej	Archidej	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 country	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bring	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 bring	cc
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 bring	nsubj
16	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 come	parataxis
17	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wares	amod
18	wares	ware	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 bring	obj
19	—	-	PUNCT	_	21 brocades	punct
20	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 brocades	amod
21	brocades	brocade	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 wares	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 carpets	punct
23	carpets	carpet	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 brocades	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 jewels	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 jewels	cc
26	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 jewels	amod
27	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 brocades	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 wish	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 wish	obj
30	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 wish	nsubj
31	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 brocades	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 show	mark
33	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 wish	xcomp
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 king	case
35	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 king	nmod:poss
36	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 show	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 princess	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 princess	det
39	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 king	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	come	present	We			the country of the great King Archidej	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from country=Initial_Location
2	bring	present	we	foreign wares and rich brocades and carpets and costly jewels			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent ware=Theme
3	wish	present	we	rich brocades and carpets and costly jewels			tree rules
4	show not said to happen	to-infinitive	we not said here		your king and the princess		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient

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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