The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 75
We trust the king of this country may condescend to welcome us, and to let his servants take charge of our wares.
Who acts: We, king, servants · What happens: trust, condescend, welcome, let, take, charge · To what, where: us, charge, wares
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, king, servants), 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 trust | nsubj |
| 2 | trust | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 condescend | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 country | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 country | det |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 king | nmod |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 condescend | aux |
| 9 | condescend | condescend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 trust | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 welcome | mark |
| 11 | welcome | welcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 condescend | xcomp |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 welcome | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 let | cc |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 let | mark |
| 16 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 trust | parataxis |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 servants | nmod:poss |
| 18 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 take | nsubj |
| 19 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 let | ccomp |
| 20 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 take | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 wares | case |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 wares | nmod:poss |
| 23 | wares | ware | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 charge | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 trust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust | present | We | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | condescend | may | the king of this country | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | welcome | to-infinitive | the king of this country not said here | us | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 4 | let | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | take | present | king's servants | charge of our wares | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme | ||||
| 6 | charge | our wares | nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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