The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 7

After breakfast, the Sultan, who was getting tired of the whole affair and wanted to be alone to invent some other plan, told them they might return home.

Who acts: Sultan, three · What happens: get, want, be, invent, tell, return · To what, where: other plan, three · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, three), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 breakfast	case
2	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wanted	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 breakfast	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Sultan	det
5	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 wanted	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 getting	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 getting	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 getting	aux
9	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 Sultan	conj
10	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 getting	xcomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 affair	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 affair	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 affair	amod
14	affair	affair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tired	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Sultan	cc
16	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	to	to	PART	_	19 alone	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 alone	cop
19	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 wanted	xcomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 invent	mark
21	invent	invent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 alone	xcomp
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 plan	det
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 plan	amod
24	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 invent	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 told	punct
26	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 wanted	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 told	iobj
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 return	nsubj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 return	aux
30	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 told	ccomp
31	home	home	ADV	_	30 return	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · progressive	the Sultan				tired property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	want	past	the Sultan			after breakfast		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
3	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Sultan not said here				alone property	tree rules
4	invent	to-infinitive	the Sultan not said here	some other plan				vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Result
5	tell speech: assert	past	the Sultan not said here		three			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
6	return	might	three				home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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