The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 71

That very evening his chamberlain arrived at Jack's dwelling, with a request from the king that he might borrow the table for three days.

Who acts: chamberlain · What happens: arrive, borrow · To what, where: dwelling, table

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chamberlain), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 evening	det
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 evening	advmod
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 arrived	obl:unmarked
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 chamberlain	nmod:poss
5	chamberlain	chamberlain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 arrived	nsubj
6	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 dwelling	case
8	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 dwelling	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Jack	case
10	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 arrived	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 request	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 request	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 request	det
14	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 arrived	obl
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 king	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 king	det
17	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 request	nmod
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 borrow	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 borrow	nsubj
20	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 borrow	aux
21	borrow	borrow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 arrived	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 table	det
23	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 borrow	obj
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 days	case
25	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 days	nummod
26	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 borrow	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	tale's chamberlain			Jack's dwelling	evening	with a request from the king	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	borrow	might	chamberlain	the table			day		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=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 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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