The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 81

The smith asked him to go along with him to the palace, but he refused; so off set the smith, and the whole townland with him; and wasn’t the king rejoiced when he saw the crowns!

Who acts: smith, king · What happens: ask, go along, refuse, set, not be, see · To what, where: shouting, palace, smith, crowns

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smith, king), 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 smith	det
2	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	iobj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asked	xcomp
7	along	along	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 go	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 palace	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 palace	det
12	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 refused	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 refused	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 refused	nsubj
16	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 set	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 set	advmod
19	off	off	ADV	_	20 set	advmod
20	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asked	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 smith	det
22	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 set	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 townland	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 townland	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 townland	det
26	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 townland	amod
27	townland	townland	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	parataxis
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 townland	nmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 rejoiced	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 rejoiced	cc
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 rejoiced	cop
33	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 rejoiced	advmod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 king	det
35	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 rejoiced	nsubj
36	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	conj
37	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	39 saw	advmod
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 saw	nsubj
39	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 rejoiced	advcl
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 crowns	det
41	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 saw	obj
42	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the smith		shouting			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go along not said to happen	to-infinitive	the smith not said here			the palace	with smith; along property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location
3	refuse	past	smith					vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	set	infinitive	the smith not said here	the smith			off property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient smith=Result
5	not is	past	the king				rejoice property	tree rules
6	see	past	smith	the crowns				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crown=Stimulus

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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