The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 61

He next washed himself thoroughly, and dressed himself, in his best clothes, and putting the flask in his pocket, set out for the palace, and begged to see the king without delay.

Who acts: sun · What happens: wash, dress, put, set out, beg, see · To what, where: sun, best clothes, flask, pocket, king

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 (sun), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 washed	nsubj
2	next	next	ADV	_	3 washed	advmod
3	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 washed	obj
5	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	_	3 washed	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dressed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dressed	cc
8	dressed	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 washed	conj
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 dressed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 clothes	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 clothes	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 clothes	nmod:poss
13	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 clothes	amod
14	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	8 dressed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 putting	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 putting	cc
17	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 dressed	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 flask	det
19	flask	flask	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 putting	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 pocket	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 pocket	nmod:poss
22	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 putting	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 set	punct
24	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 putting	conj
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 set	compound:prt
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 palace	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 palace	det
28	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 set	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 begged	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 begged	cc
31	begged	beg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 washed	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 see	mark
33	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 begged	xcomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 king	det
35	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 see	obj
36	without	without	ADP	_	37 delay	case
37	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 see	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 washed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wash	past	sun	sun		next, thoroughly property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
2	dress	past	sun not said here	sun	sun's best clothes		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
3	put	gerund	sun not said here	the flask	sun's pocket		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flask=Theme in pocket=Destination
4	set out	participle	sun not said here			for the palace	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	beg speech: request	participle	sun not said here				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	sun not said here	the king		without delay	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/38/61/