The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 8

“One day he so pressed to know what would pleasure the prince, that the latter said: “I have only one wish, and that I will name to you in private.”

Who acts: king, latter, I · What happens: press, know, pleasure, say, have, name · To what, where: prince, one wish, you, private · 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 (king, latter, I), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 pressed	punct
2	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pressed	obl:unmarked
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pressed	nsubj
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 pressed	advmod
6	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 know	mark
8	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 pressed	xcomp
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 pleasure	obj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 pleasure	aux
11	pleasure	pleasure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 know	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 prince	det
13	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pleasure	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 said	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 latter	det
17	latter	latter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pressed	conj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
22	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 said	ccomp
23	only	only	ADV	_	24 one	advmod
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 wish	nummod
25	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 name	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 name	cc
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 name	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 name	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 name	aux
31	name	name	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 have	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 you	case
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 name	obl
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 private	case
35	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 name	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pressed	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 pressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	press in a quote	past	king				day	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know in a quote	to-infinitive	king not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	pleasure in a quote	would		the prince				tree rules
4	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the latter					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	have	present	I	one wish				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient
6	name	future	I		you	private		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent to you=Attribute

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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