The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 42

Directly he reached his palace he wrote a letter to the king of the land of the north, begging him, as a favour, to sell him his slave girl Puruna and her son, and saying that, if he consented, he would send a messenger to receive them at the river which divided the kingdoms.

Who acts: king, river · What happens: reach, write, beg, sell, say, consent · To what, where: palace, letter, king, slave girl, that, messenger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, river), 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	Directly	directly	ADV	_	3 reached	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 palace	nmod:poss
5	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wrote	nsubj
7	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reached	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 letter	det
9	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wrote	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 king	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 letter	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 land	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 land	det
15	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 king	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 north	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 north	det
18	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 land	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 begging	punct
20	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 wrote	advcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 begging	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 favour	punct
23	as	as	ADP	_	25 favour	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 favour	det
25	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 begging	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sell	punct
27	to	to	PART	_	28 sell	mark
28	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wrote	advcl
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sell	iobj
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 girl	nmod:poss
31	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 girl	compound
32	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sell	obj
33	Puruna	Puruna	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 girl	appos
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 son	cc
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 son	nmod:poss
36	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 girl	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 saying	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 saying	cc
39	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 reached	advcl
40	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 saying	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 consented	punct
42	if	if	SCONJ	_	44 consented	mark
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 consented	nsubj
44	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reached	parataxis
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 send	punct
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 send	nsubj
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 send	aux
48	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 consented	conj
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 messenger	det
50	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 send	obj
51	to	to	PART	_	52 receive	mark
52	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 send	advcl
53	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 receive	obj
54	at	at	ADP	_	56 river	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 river	det
56	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 receive	obl
57	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	58 divided	nsubj
58	divided	divide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 river	acl:relcl
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 kingdoms	det
60	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 divided	obj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	king	king's palace			directly property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=Theme
2	write	past	king	a letter	the king of the land of the north			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent letter=Topic to king=Recipient
3	beg speech: request	gerund	king not said here		king		as a favour	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	sell	to-infinitive	king not said here	king's slave girl and Puruna's son	king			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient girl=Theme
5	say speech: assert	gerund	king not said here	that				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic
6	consent a condition, not said to happen	past	king					vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	send	would	king	a messenger				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme
8	receive	to-infinitive	king not said here	teeth = tooth		the river		vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme at river=Location
9	divide	past	the river	the kingdoms				vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=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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