The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 46

He sent for his Grand Wazeer and told him that he was going on one of his lonely expeditions, and that the Wazeer must invent some excuse to account for his absence.

Who acts: king, Wazeer · What happens: send, tell, go, invent, absent · To what, where: king, excuse · 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, Wazeer), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 Wazeer	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 Wazeer	nmod:poss
5	Grand	Grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Wazeer	amod
6	Wazeer	Wazeer	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 told	cc
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sent	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 going	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 going	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 going	aux
13	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 told	ccomp
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 one	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 going	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 expeditions	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 expeditions	nmod:poss
18	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 expeditions	amod
19	expeditions	expedition	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 one	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 invent	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 invent	cc
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 invent	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Wazeer	det
24	Wazeer	Wazeer	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 invent	nsubj
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 invent	aux
26	invent	invent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sent	parataxis
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 excuse	det
28	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 invent	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 account	mark
30	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 invent	xcomp
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 absence	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 absence	nmod:poss
33	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 account	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	send	past	king			for king's Grand Wazeer	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	king not said here		king		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go	past · progressive	king			on one of king's lonely expeditions	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on one=Location
4	invent	must	the Wazeer	some excuse			vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent excuse=Result
5	absent		king				nom absence «state 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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