The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 87

Then the king’s wise men said: “This is a very weighty matter; it would be best to allow the prince to set out accompanied by some persons in whom you have confidence.

Who acts: wise men, This, it, prince, you · What happens: say, be, allow, set out, accompany, have · To what, where: weighty matter, prince, confidence · 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 (wise men, This, it, prince), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 men	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 king	case
5	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 men	amod
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 matter	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 matter	punct
10	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 matter	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 matter	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 matter	det
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 weighty	advmod
14	weighty	weighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 matter	amod
15	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 best	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 best	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 best	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 best	cop
20	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 said	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 allow	mark
22	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 best	csubj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 prince	det
24	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 allow	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 set	mark
26	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 allow	xcomp
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 set	compound:prt
28	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 set	xcomp
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 persons	case
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 persons	det
31	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 accompanied	obl:agent
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 whom	case
33	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 persons	nmod
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 have	nsubj
35	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 whom	acl:relcl
36	confidence	confidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 have	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the king's wise men		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	This	a weighty matter			tree rules
3	is in a quote	would	it			good property	tree rules
4	allow in a quote	to-infinitive		the prince			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer prince=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
5	set out not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the prince not said here				vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	accompany in a quote	participle	the prince not said here				vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	have in a quote	present	you	confidence			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confidence=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 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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