The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 14

However, in consideration of what the youth had done the day before, he hoped his majesty’s heart might be softened, especially as he had sent a message that they might expect him at once.

Who acts: youth, commands · What happens: do, hope, soften, send, expect · To what, where: consideration, heart, message, youth · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (youth, commands), 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	However	however	ADV	_	16 hoped	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 consideration	case
4	consideration	consideration	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hoped	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 what	case
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 consideration	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 youth	det
8	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 done	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 done	aux
10	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 what	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 done	obl:unmarked
13	before	before	ADV	_	10 done	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 consideration	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hoped	nsubj
16	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 majesty	nmod:poss
18	majesty	majesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 heart	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 majesty	case
20	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 softened	nsubj:pass
21	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 softened	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 softened	aux:pass
23	softened	soften	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 hoped	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sent	punct
25	especially	especially	ADV	_	29 sent	advmod
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 sent	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 sent	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 sent	aux
29	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 softened	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 message	det
31	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sent	obj
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 expect	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 expect	nsubj
34	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 expect	aux
35	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 message	acl
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 expect	obj
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 once	case
38	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	35 expect	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 hoped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · perfect	the youth			day	before property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hope	past	youth		consideration		however property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	soften	might · passive		youth's majesty's heart				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
4	send	past · perfect	youth	a message			especially property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme
5	expect	might	commands = command	youth				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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