The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 106

The king admitted him into the presence chamber without delay, and bade him state what he had to say, and to be quick about it.

Who acts: king · What happens: admit, state, have, say, be · To what, where: way, presence chamber, bade · 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 (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 admitted	nsubj
3	admitted	admit	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 admitted	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 chamber	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chamber	det
7	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chamber	compound
8	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 admitted	obl
9	without	without	ADP	_	10 delay	case
10	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chamber	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 state	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 state	cc
13	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 state	obl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bade	obj
15	state	state	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 admitted	parataxis
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 state	obj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 what	acl:relcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 say	mark
20	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 had	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 quick	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 quick	cc
23	to	to	PART	_	25 quick	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 quick	cop
25	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 state	conj
26	about	about	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 quick	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 admitted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	admit speech: other	past	the king	way	the presence chamber without delay		vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	state speech: other	present		bade			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	have	past	king				tree rules
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	king not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	to-infinitive				about bade; quick property	tree rules

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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