The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 23

The king asked him what he was reading; and he said he was reading about Paradise, and praying that he might be worthy to enter there.

Who acts: king · What happens: ask, read, say, pray, be, enter · To what, where: fakeer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	iobj
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 reading	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 reading	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 reading	aux
8	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 asked	ccomp
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	parataxis
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 reading	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 reading	aux
15	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 said	ccomp
16	about	about	ADP	_	17 Paradise	case
17	Paradise	Paradise	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 reading	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 praying	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 praying	cc
20	praying	pray	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 reading	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 worthy	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 worthy	nsubj
23	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 worthy	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 worthy	cop
25	worthy	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 praying	ccomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 enter	mark
27	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 worthy	xcomp
28	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 enter	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the king	fakeer			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	read	past · progressive	King				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	say speech: assert	past	King				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	read	past · progressive	King			about Paradise	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about paradise=Topic
5	pray	gerund	King not said here				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	is	might	King			worthy property	tree rules
7	enter	to-infinitive	King not said here		there		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=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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