The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 67

However, he had no time to attend to such matters just then, as, after nine years, he had at last consented to the entreaties of his courtiers, and was on the eve of celebrating his second marriage.

Who acts: door, such · What happens: have, attend, matter, consent, be, celebrate · To what, where: last, eve, second marriage

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, such), 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	However	however	ADV	_	4 had	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 attend	mark
8	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 time	acl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 matters	case
10	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	11 matters	nsubj
11	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 attend	obl
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 then	advmod
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 attend	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 years	punct
15	as	as	ADP	_	19 years	case
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 as	punct
17	after	after	ADP	_	15 as	conj
18	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 years	nummod
19	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 last	case
24	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 had	obj
25	consented	consent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 last	acl
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 entreaties	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 entreaties	det
28	entreaties	entreaty	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 consented	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 courtiers	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 courtiers	nmod:poss
31	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 entreaties	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 eve	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 eve	cc
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 eve	cop
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 eve	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 eve	det
37	eve	eve	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
38	of	of	SCONJ	_	39 celebrating	mark
39	celebrating	celebrate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 eve	advcl
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 marriage	nmod:poss
41	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	42 marriage	amod
42	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 celebrating	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	door			time; year	however property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	attend	to-infinitive	door not said here			then		vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	matter	present	such					vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
4	have	past	door	last				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent last=Patient
5	consent	participle					to the entreaties of door's courtiers	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to entreaty=Theme
6	is	past			the eve			tree rules
7	celebrate	gerund		door's second marriage				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marriage=Theme
8	marry		door					nom marriage «state 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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