The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 113

The king was nearly beside himself with joy, for he had always longed for a son to inherit his crown, and he sent messages to beg all the most powerful fairies to come and see this wonderful baby.

Who acts: king · What happens: be, long, inherit, send, beg, come · To what, where: king, crown, messages, powerful fairies, wonderful baby

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sent	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 himself	cop
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	6 himself	advmod
5	beside	beside	ADP	_	6 himself	case
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 king	nmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 joy	case
8	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 himself	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 longed	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 longed	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 longed	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 longed	aux
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 longed	advmod
14	longed	long	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 king	acl:relcl
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 son	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 son	det
17	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 longed	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 inherit	mark
19	inherit	inherit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 longed	advcl
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 crown	nmod:poss
21	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 inherit	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sent	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sent	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sent	nsubj
25	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sent	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 beg	mark
28	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 sent	advcl
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 fairies	det:predet
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 fairies	det
31	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	32 powerful	advmod
32	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 fairies	amod
33	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 beg	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 come	mark
35	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 beg	advcl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 see	cc
37	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 come	conj
38	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 baby	det
39	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 baby	amod
40	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 see	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past				beside king; with joy; nearly property	tree rules
2	long	past · perfect	king	the king not said here		for a son; always property	tree rules
3	inherit	to-infinitive	king not said here	king's crown			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme
4	send	past	the king	messages			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme
5	beg speech: request	to-infinitive	the king not said here		all powerful fairies		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent fairy=Recipient
6	come	to-infinitive	the king not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	see	infinitive	the king not said here	this wonderful baby			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer baby=Stimulus
8	crown		king				nom crown «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 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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