The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 31
There and then the king besought him to remember his promise, and to show him a glimpse of Paradise.
Who acts: king · What happens: beseech, remember, show, promise, glimpse · To what, where: fakeer, promise, glimpse, King, Paradise
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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 besought | expl |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 besought | cc |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 besought | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 besought | nsubj |
| 6 | besought | beseech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 besought | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 remember | mark |
| 9 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 besought | xcomp |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 promise | nmod:poss |
| 11 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 remember | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 show | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 show | cc |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 show | mark |
| 15 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 remember | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 show | iobj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 glimpse | det |
| 18 | glimpse | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 show | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Paradise | case |
| 20 | Paradise | paradise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 glimpse | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 besought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beseech | past | the king | fakeer | there | then | tree rules | ||
| 2 | remember | to-infinitive | the king not said here | King's promise | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | ||||
| 3 | show | to-infinitive | the king not said here | a glimpse of Paradise | King | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient glimpse=Topic | |||
| 4 | promise | King | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | glimpse | Paradise | nom glimpse «act 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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