The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 27

By his advice he sent an invitation to the king and princess of Khaistan to come and be his guests, together with all their retinue and servants, down to the very humblest in the camp.

Who acts: Wali · What happens: send, come, be · To what, where: invitation, king, guests

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wali), 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 advice	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 advice	nmod:poss
3	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sent	nsubj
5	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 invitation	det
7	invitation	invitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 king	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 invitation	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 princess	cc
12	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 invitation	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Khaistan	case
14	Khaistan	Khaistan	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 princess	nmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 come	mark
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sent	advcl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 guests	cc
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 guests	cop
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 guests	nmod:poss
20	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 come	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 retinue	punct
22	together	together	ADV	_	26 retinue	advmod
23	with	with	ADP	_	26 retinue	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 retinue	det:predet
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 retinue	nmod:poss
26	retinue	retinue	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 servants	cc
28	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 retinue	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 humblest	punct
30	down	down	ADV	_	34 humblest	advmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	34 humblest	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 humblest	det
33	very	very	ADV	_	34 humblest	advmod
34	humblest	humble	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 retinue	appos
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 camp	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 camp	det
37	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 humblest	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	send	past	Wali	a invitation and princess of Khaistan	the king	by Wali's advice; with guests's retinue and servants	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme to king=Destination
2	come	to-infinitive	Wali not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	infinitive	Wali not said here	Wali's guests			tree rules

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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