The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 73

'I will tell him myself,' replied the king in wrath; 'he promised me a wonder of beauty, he has sent me a skeleton!

Who acts: I, king · What happens: tell, reply, promise, send, wonder · To what, where: myself, king, wrath, wonder, me, skeleton · 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 (I, king), 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	_	4 tell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 tell	iobj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct
9	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 replied	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 wrath	case
13	wrath	wrath	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 replied	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 promised	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 promised	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 promised	nsubj
17	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	advcl
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 promised	iobj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 wonder	det
20	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 promised	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 beauty	case
22	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wonder	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sent	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sent	nsubj
25	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 sent	aux
26	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 tell	ccomp
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 sent	obj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 skeleton	det
29	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sent	obj
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future	I		myself		tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	past		the king		wrath	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic
3	promise speech: promise	past	king	a wonder of beauty	me		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal wonder=Theme
4	send	present · perfect	king	a skeleton	me		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination skeleton=Theme
5	wonder			beauty			nom wonder «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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