The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 8
When King Quimus heard of the approach of such a great company, he sent out his wazir to give the prince honourable meeting, and to ask what had procured him the favour of the visit.
Who acts: King, great company · What happens: hear, send out, give, ask, procure, approach · To what, where: wazir, prince honourable meeting, King, visit
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, great company), 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 heard | advmod |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | Quimus | Quimus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | flat |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sent | advcl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 approach | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 approach | det |
| 7 | approach | approach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 company | case |
| 9 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 company | det:predet |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 company | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 company | amod |
| 12 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 approach | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sent | nsubj |
| 15 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 sent | compound:prt |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wazir | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wazir | wazir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 give | mark |
| 20 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sent | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 meeting | det |
| 22 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 meeting | compound |
| 23 | honourable | honourable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 meeting | amod |
| 24 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 give | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 ask | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 ask | cc |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 ask | mark |
| 28 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 give | conj |
| 29 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 31 procured | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 procured | aux |
| 31 | procured | procure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 ask | xcomp |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 procured | obj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 favour | det |
| 34 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 procured | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 visit | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 visit | det |
| 37 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 favour | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | King | of the approach of such great company | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of approach=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | send out | past | King | King's wazir | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wazir=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | King not said here | the prince honourable meeting | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meeting=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | King not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | procure not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | King | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | approach | such great company | nom approach «act intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 7 | favour | the visit | nom favour «feeling 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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