The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 20

And he bowed low, and besought her to do him the honour to enter the palace; and Gille Mairtean, as he went in, turned to look back at Ian Direach, and laughed.

Who acts: king, Gille · What happens: bow, beseech, do, enter, go in, turn · To what, where: fox, king, palace, Gille

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Gille), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 bowed	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bowed	nsubj
3	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bowed	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 besought	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 besought	cc
7	besought	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bowed	conj
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 besought	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 besought	xcomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	obj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 honour	det
13	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 enter	mark
15	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 honour	acl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 palace	det
17	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 enter	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 turned	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 turned	cc
20	Gille	Gille	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 turned	nsubj
21	Mairtean	Mairtean	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Gille	flat
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 went	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 went	nsubj
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 Gille	acl:relcl
26	in	in	ADV	_	25 went	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 turned	punct
28	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bowed	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 look	mark
30	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 turned	xcomp
31	back	back	ADV	_	30 look	advmod
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 Ian	case
33	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 look	obl
34	Direach	Direach	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Ian	flat
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 laughed	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 laughed	cc
37	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bowed	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bow	past	king		low property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	beseech	past	king not said here	fox		tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive	king not said here	king		tree rules
4	enter	to-infinitive	king not said here	the palace		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Destination
5	go in	past	king	Gille not said here		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gille=Theme
6	turn	participle	Gille			tree rules
7	look back	to-infinitive	Gille not said here		at Ian	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at ian=Theme
8	laugh	past	king not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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