The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 105

So he went at once to the Lord High Chamberlain and craved an audience of the king, to whom he declared he wished to tell some news of the highest importance.

Who acts: way · What happens: go, crave, declare, wish, tell · To what, where: High Chamberlain, audience, news · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 went	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 Chamberlain	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Chamberlain	det
8	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 High	compound
9	High	High	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Chamberlain	compound
10	Chamberlain	Chamberlain	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 craved	cc
12	craved	crave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 audience	det
14	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 craved	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 king	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 king	det
17	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 audience	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 whom	punct
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 whom	case
20	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 craved	advcl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 declared	nsubj
22	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 whom	acl:relcl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 wished	nsubj
24	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 declared	ccomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 tell	mark
26	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 wished	xcomp
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 news	det
28	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tell	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 importance	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 importance	det
31	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 importance	amod
32	importance	importance	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 news	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	past	way		the High Chamberlain	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to chamberlain=Initial_Location
2	crave	past	way not said here	a audience of the king		vn want-32.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot audience=Theme
3	declare speech: other	past	way			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	wish	past	way			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	way not said here	some news of the highest importance		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent news=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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