The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 19

'What a wife our prince will have!' said Becasigue bowing low; 'but I must hasten back with the tidings, and to prepare the underground chamber for the princess.'

Who acts: wife, Becasigue, I · What happens: have, say, bow, hasten back, prepare · To what, where: underground chamber · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wife, Becasigue, I), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 have	obj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wife	det
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	nsubj
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 prince	nmod:poss
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 have	aux
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 have	acl
12	Becasigue	Becasigue	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
13	bowing	bow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 Becasigue	acl
14	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 bowing	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 hasten	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 hasten	nsubj
19	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 hasten	aux
20	hasten	hasten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 have	conj
21	back	back	ADV	_	20 hasten	advmod
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 tidings	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 tidings	det
24	tidings	tiding	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hasten	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 prepare	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 prepare	cc
27	to	to	PART	_	28 prepare	mark
28	prepare	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 have	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 chamber	det
30	underground	underground	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 chamber	amod
31	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 prepare	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 princess	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 princess	det
34	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 prepare	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	future	a wife			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	Becasigue			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	bow	gerund	Becasigue not said here		low property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hasten back	must	I		with the tidings	vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with tiding=Eventuality
5	prepare	to-infinitive	a wife not said here	the underground chamber	for the princess	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent chamber=Product for princess=Beneficiary

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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