The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 33
At the same time he implored the king not to do this thing, but to be content to see Paradise when God called him there.
Who acts: King, God · What happens: implore, not do, be, see, call · To what, where: king, thing, Paradise · 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, God), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 implored | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 implored | nsubj |
| 6 | implored | implore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 implored | obj |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 do | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 implored | advcl |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 thing | det |
| 13 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 content | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 content | cc |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 content | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 content | cop |
| 18 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 implored | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 see | mark |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 content | xcomp |
| 21 | Paradise | paradise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 see | obj |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 called | advmod |
| 23 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 called | nsubj |
| 24 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 see | advcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 called | obj |
| 26 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 called | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 implored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | implore | past | King | the king | time | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient | |||
| 2 | not do | to-infinitive | King not said here | this thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | content property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | Paradise | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer paradise=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | call | past | God | King | there | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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