The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 11

Very shortly the ointment began to soothe the sharp pain, and the king, whose confidence increased every moment, begged the young man to tell him his name.

Who acts: ointment, king · What happens: begin, soothe, increase, beg, tell, confide · To what, where: sharp pain, young man, name, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ointment, 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	Very	very	ADV	_	2 shortly	advmod
2	shortly	shortly	ADV	_	5 began	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ointment	det
4	ointment	ointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 soothe	mark
7	soothe	soothe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pain	det
9	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pain	amod
10	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 soothe	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 increased	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 increased	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 king	det
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 increased	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 confidence	punct
16	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	17 confidence	nmod:poss
17	confidence	confidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 king	conj
18	increased	increase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 began	parataxis
19	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	20 moment	det
20	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 increased	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 begged	punct
22	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 increased	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 man	det
24	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 man	amod
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 begged	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 tell	mark
27	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 begged	advcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 tell	iobj
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 name	nmod:poss
30	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tell	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the ointment				shortly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	soothe	to-infinitive	the ointment not said here	the sharp pain				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus pain=Experiencer
3	increase	past	the king and the king and the king's confidence's confidence			moment		vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	beg speech: request	past	the king and the king and the king's confidence's confidence not said here		the young man			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent man=Recipient
5	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the king and the king and the king's confidence's confidence not said here	king's name	man			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient name=Topic
6	confide		the king and the king and confidence's confidence					nom confidence «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
7	name		king					nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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