The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 30

[3] One day, when the king was sitting in his hall of audience, his eldest son, Prince Tahmasp, came before him, and after greeting his father with due respect, said: “O my royal father!

Who acts: king, 3 One day · What happens: sit, come, greet, say · To what, where: hall, father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, 3 One day), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 3	punct
2	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 day	nummod
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 3	punct
4	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 day	nummod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 came	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sitting	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 sitting	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sitting	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sitting	aux
11	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 day	acl:relcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 hall	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hall	nmod:poss
14	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sitting	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 audience	case
16	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hall	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 son	punct
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 son	nmod:poss
19	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 son	amod
20	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sitting	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Tahmasp	punct
22	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Tahmasp	nmod:desc
23	Tahmasp	Tahmasp	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 son	appos
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 day	punct
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	before	before	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 came	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 said	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 said	cc
30	after	after	SCONJ	_	31 greeting	mark
31	greeting	greet	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 said	advcl
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 father	nmod:poss
33	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 greeting	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 respect	case
35	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 respect	amod
36	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 greeting	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 greeting	punct
38	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 came	parataxis
39	:	:	PUNCT	_	44 father	punct
40	“	"	PUNCT	_	44 father	punct
41	O	o	INTJ	_	44 father	discourse
42	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 father	nmod:poss
43	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 father	amod
44	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 said	ccomp
45	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	the king		King's hall of audience			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location
2	come	past	3 One day			before King		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location
3	greet speech: greet	gerund		King's father			with due respect	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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