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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 13

Time flew by, the king again and again begged the prince to ask some gift of him, and always received this same reply: “I wish for your Majesty’s welfare, what more can I desire?”

Who acts: Time · What happens: fly, beg, ask, receive, wish, desire · To what, where: prince, gift, same reply, welfare, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Time), 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

nsubjcasepunctdetobladvmodccadvmodconjdetobjmarkadvcldetobjcasenmodpunctccadvmodconjdetamodobjpunctpunctnsubjconjcasenmod:possnmod:posscaseoblpunctobjamodauxnsubjacl:relclpunctpunctrootTimeNOUNflewVERBbyADP,PUNCTtheDETkingNOUNagainADVandCCONJagainADVbeggedVERBtheDETprinceNOUNtoPARTaskVERBsomeDETgiftNOUNofADPhimPRON,PUNCTandCCONJalwaysADVreceivedVERBthisDETsameADJreplyNOUN:PUNCT“PUNCTIPRONwishVERBforADPyourPRONMajestyNOUN’sPARTwelfareNOUN,PUNCTwhatPRONmoreADJcanAUXIPRONdesireVERB?PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TimetimeNOUNNumber=Sing2 flewnsubj
2flewflyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3bybyADP_6 kingcase
4,,PUNCT_3 bypunct
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 kingdet
6kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing2 flewobl
7againagainADV_2 flewadvmod
8andandCCONJ_10 beggedcc
9againagainADV_10 beggedadvmod
10beggedbegVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 flewconj
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 princedet
12princeprinceNOUNNumber=Sing10 beggedobj
13totoPART_14 askmark
14askaskVERBVerbForm=Inf10 beggedadvcl
15somesomeDETPronType=Ind16 giftdet
16giftgiftNOUNNumber=Sing14 askobj
17ofofADP_18 himcase
18himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 giftnmod
19,,PUNCT_22 receivedpunct
20andandCCONJ_22 receivedcc
21alwaysalwaysADVPronType=Tot22 receivedadvmod
22receivedreceiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 flewconj
23thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem25 replydet
24samesameADJDegree=Pos25 replyamod
25replyreplyNOUNNumber=Sing22 receivedobj
26::PUNCT_29 wishpunct
27“"PUNCT_29 wishpunct
28IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs29 wishnsubj
29wishwishVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 flewconj
30forforADP_34 welfarecase
31youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs32 Majestynmod:poss
32MajestymajestyNOUNNumber=Sing34 welfarenmod:poss
33’s'sPART_32 Majestycase
34welfarewelfareNOUNNumber=Sing29 wishobl
35,,PUNCT_40 desirepunct
36whatwhatPRONPronType=Int40 desireobj
37moremoreADJDegree=Cmp36 whatamod
38cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin40 desireaux
39IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs40 desirensubj
40desiredesireVERBVerbForm=Inf34 welfareacl:relcl
41??PUNCT_2 flewpunct
42”"PUNCT_2 flewpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1flypastTimeagainby the kingvn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by king=Location
2beg speech: requestpastTime not said herethe princeagainvn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient
3ask speech: askto-infinitiveTime not said heresome gift of kingvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent gift=Recipient
4receivepastTime not said herethis same replyalways propertyvn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reply=Theme
5wish in a quotepresentTimefor your Majesty's welfarevn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for welfare=Theme
6desire in a quotecanTimeyour Majesty's welfarevn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
7giftkingnom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient

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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