The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 86

Zengi-mizi,' he said, 'the king seems loth to grant my request for the Mirror--is there not some other thing of equal value for which I might ask?'

Who acts: Zengi mizi, king, I, my · What happens: say, seem, grant, not be, ask, request · To what, where: request, other thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Zengi mizi, king, I, my), 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	Zengi	Zengi	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mizi	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Zengi	punct
3	mizi	mizi	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mizi	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 mizi	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seems	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 seems	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seems	nsubj
12	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 is	advcl
13	loth	loth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 seems	xcomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 grant	mark
15	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 loth	advcl
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 request	nmod:poss
17	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grant	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 Mirror	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Mirror	det
20	Mirror	Mirror	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 request	nmod
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 is	punct
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 thing	cop
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 is	expl
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 thing	advmod
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 thing	det
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 thing	amod
27	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 value	case
29	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 value	amod
30	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 thing	nmod
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 which	case
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 ask	obl
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 ask	nsubj
34	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 ask	aux
35	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 value	acl:relcl
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	27 thing	punct
37	'	'	PUNCT	_	27 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Zengi mizi			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	seem	present	the king		loth property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	grant	to-infinitive	the king not said here	my request	for the Mirror goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent request=Theme for mirror=Goal
4	not is a	present		some other thing	of equal value	tree rules
5	ask speech: ask	might	I		for equal value	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	request		my		for the Mirror	nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent for=obl

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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