The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 28

Time went on, and the king always sent the old fakeer his food according to his promise; but, whenever he sent to ask him when he was going to show him Paradise, the fakeer always replied: 'Not yet, not yet!'

Who acts: king, food, fakeer, Paradise · What happens: go on, send, accord, ask, go, show · To what, where: old fakeer, promise, 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, food, fakeer, Paradise), 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	Time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl:unmarked
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sent	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sent	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sent	nsubj
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 sent	advmod
9	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fakeer	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fakeer	amod
12	fakeer	fakeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sent	obj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 food	nmod:poss
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fakeer	nmod
15	according	accord	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 food	acl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 promise	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 promise	nmod:poss
18	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 according	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 sent	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 sent	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sent	punct
22	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 sent	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sent	nsubj
24	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 ask	mark
26	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 sent	xcomp
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 ask	obj
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 going	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 going	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 going	aux
31	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 ask	advcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 show	mark
33	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 going	xcomp
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 show	iobj
35	Paradise	Paradise	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 replied	nsubj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 fakeer	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 fakeer	det
38	fakeer	fakeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 replied	obl
39	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	40 replied	advmod
40	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 show	ccomp
41	:	:	PUNCT	_	44 yet	punct
42	'	'	PUNCT	_	44 yet	punct
43	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 yet	advmod
44	yet	yet	ADV	_	24 sent	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 yet	punct
46	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 yet	advmod
47	yet	yet	ADV	_	44 yet	conj
48	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct
49	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past				time		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	send	past	the king	the old fakeer fakeer's food			always property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fakeer=Theme
3	accord	gerund	fakeer's food not said here				to fakeer's promise goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to promise=Goal
4	send	past	fakeer			yet	whenever property	tree rules
5	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	fakeer not said here		fakeer			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6	go	past · progressive	fakeer					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	show	to-infinitive	fakeer not said here		fakeer			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
8	reply speech: assert	past	Paradise	the fakeer			always property	vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	promise		fakeer					nom promise «communication 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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