The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 30

On inquiring, it was found that he never left the walls of his own city, and expected his patients to come to see him; but, by dint of offering a large sum of money, the king persuaded the famous physician to undertake the journey to his own court.

Who acts: land, patients, dint · What happens: inquire, find, not leave, expect, come, see · To what, where: news, walls, patients, land, large sum, famous physician · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (land, patients, dint), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	2 inquiring	mark
2	inquiring	inquire	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 found	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 inquiring	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 found	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 found	aux:pass
6	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 left	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 left	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 left	advmod
10	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 found	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 walls	det
12	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 left	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 city	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 city	nmod:poss
15	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 city	amod
16	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 walls	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 expected	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 expected	cc
19	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 left	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 patients	nmod:poss
21	patients	patient	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 expected	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 come	mark
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 expected	xcomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 see	mark
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 come	advcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 see	obj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 persuaded	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 persuaded	cc
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 dint	punct
30	by	by	ADP	_	31 dint	case
31	dint	dint	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 persuaded	nsubj
32	of	of	SCONJ	_	33 offering	mark
33	offering	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 dint	acl
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 sum	det
35	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 sum	amod
36	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 offering	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 money	case
38	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sum	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 dint	punct
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 king	det
41	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 persuaded	nsubj
42	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 found	conj
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 physician	det
44	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 physician	amod
45	physician	physician	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 persuaded	obj
46	to	to	PART	_	47 undertake	mark
47	undertake	undertake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 persuaded	ccomp
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 journey	det
49	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 undertake	obj
50	to	to	ADP	_	53 court	case
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 court	nmod:poss
52	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 court	amod
53	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 undertake	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	inquire speech: other	gerund				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	find	past · passive		news		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
3	not leave	past	land	the walls of land's own city		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Theme
4	expect	past	land not said here	land's patients		tree rules
5	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	land's patients not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	see	to-infinitive	land's patients not said here	land		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
7	offer	gerund	dint not said here	a large sum of money		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent sum=Theme
8	persuade	past	dint	the famous physician		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent physician=Patient clause=Result
9	undertake	to-infinitive	dint not said here	the journey	to land's own court	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Eventuality
10	sum			money		nom sum «possession 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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