The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 98

The prince told his story from beginning to end, and finished by saying: “Now it is my heart’s wish that you should help me to get to Waq of the Caucasus.

Who acts: prince, story, wish · What happens: tell, finish, say, be, help, get · To what, where: story, beginning, wish, prince, Waq · 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 (prince, story, wish), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	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 story	nmod:poss
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 beginning	case
7	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 end	case
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 finished	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 finished	cc
12	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 told	conj
13	by	by	SCONJ	_	14 saying	mark
14	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 finished	advcl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 wish	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 wish	punct
17	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 wish	advmod
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 wish	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 wish	cop
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 heart	nmod:poss
21	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wish	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 heart	case
23	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	parataxis
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 help	nsubj
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 help	nsubj
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 help	aux
27	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 wish	acl:relcl
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 help	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 get	mark
30	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 help	xcomp
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 Waq	case
32	Waq	Waq	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 get	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 Caucasus	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Caucasus	det
35	Caucasus	Caucasus	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Waq	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the prince	prince's story		from beginning; to end	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent story=Recipient clause=Topic
2	finish	participle	the prince not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the prince not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present	story	my heart's wish		now	tree rules
5	help in a quote	should	my heart's wish	the prince = prince			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme
6	get in a quote	to-infinitive	the prince = prince not said here		Waq of the Caucasus		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to waq=Result

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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