The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 120

When the merchant saw that the prince was in deadly earnest, he said: “If you wish to hear the truth of the matter you must wait upon our king.

Who acts: merchant, prince, you · What happens: see, be, say, wish, hear, wait · To what, where: truth, matter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, prince, you), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 merchant	det
3	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	advcl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 earnest	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prince	det
7	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 earnest	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 earnest	cop
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 earnest	case
10	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 earnest	amod
11	earnest	earn	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 saw	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 wish	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 wish	punct
17	If	if	SCONJ	_	19 wish	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 wish	nsubj
19	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 hear	mark
21	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 wish	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 truth	det
23	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hear	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 matter	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 matter	det
26	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 truth	nmod
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 wait	nsubj
28	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 wait	aux
29	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 matter	acl:relcl
30	upon	upon	ADP	_	32 king	case
31	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 king	nmod:poss
32	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wait	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	the merchant			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	the prince		earn property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	prince			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	wish a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	hear not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	the truth of the matter		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer truth=Stimulus
6	wait in a quote	must	you	the matter not said here	upon our king	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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