The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 10

On his arrival at the palace Becasigue pleaded his young master's cause as fervently as the king his father could have done, and entreated that the princess might be consulted in the matter.

Who acts: father, Desiree, young master · What happens: plead, do, entreat, consult, arrive, cause · To what, where: cause, arrival, princess, matter, palace

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, Desiree, young master), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 arrival	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 arrival	nmod:poss
3	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pleaded	obl
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 palace	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 palace	det
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arrival	nmod
7	Becasigue	Becasigue	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 palace	appos
8	pleaded	plead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 master	nmod:poss
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 master	amod
11	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cause	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 master	case
13	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pleaded	obj
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 fervently	advmod
15	fervently	fervently	ADV	_	18 king	advmod
16	as	as	ADP	_	18 king	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 king	det
18	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pleaded	obl
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 father	nmod:poss
20	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 done	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 done	aux
22	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 done	aux
23	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 pleaded	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 entreated	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 entreated	cc
26	entreated	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pleaded	conj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 consulted	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 princess	det
29	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 consulted	nsubj:pass
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 consulted	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 consulted	aux:pass
32	consulted	consult	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 entreated	advcl
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 matter	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 matter	det
35	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 consulted	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 pleaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	plead speech: request	past		Desiree's young master's cause	Desiree's arrival at the palace	as the king	tree rules
2	do	could · perfect	Desiree's father				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	entreat	past					vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	consult	might · passive		the princess	the matter		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	arrive		Desiree		the palace		nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent at=place
6	cause		Desiree's young master				nom cause «event transitive»: poss=agent

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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