The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 64

Presently a soldier came to summon Moti to the king; and, when he arrived and made his obeisance, the king began to question him as to why he had galloped off with the horse in this fashion.

Who acts: soldier, Moti, king · What happens: come, summon, arrive, make, begin, question · To what, where: Moti, obeisance, fashion

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, Moti, 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 soldier	det
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 summon	mark
6	summon	summon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	xcomp
7	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 summon	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 king	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 summon	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 arrived	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 arrived	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 arrived	punct
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 arrived	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 arrived	nsubj
16	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 made	cc
18	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 arrived	conj
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 obeisance	nmod:poss
20	obeisance	obeisance	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 began	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 king	det
23	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 began	nsubj
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 arrived	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 question	mark
26	question	question	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 began	xcomp
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 question	obj
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 galloped	mark
29	to	to	ADP	_	28 as	fixed
30	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	33 galloped	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 galloped	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 galloped	aux
33	galloped	gallop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 began	xcomp
34	off	off	ADP	_	33 galloped	compound:prt
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 horse	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 horse	det
37	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 galloped	obl
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 fashion	case
39	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 fashion	det
40	fashion	fashion	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 galloped	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	a soldier				presently property	tree rules
2	summon	to-infinitive	a soldier not said here		Moti		to the king	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moti=Recipient
3	arrive	past	Moti					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	make	past	Moti not said here	Moti's obeisance				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset obeisance=Product
5	begin	past	the king					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	question speech: other	to-infinitive	the king not said here		Moti			vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
7	gallop off	past · perfect	Moti			this fashion	with the horse	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fashion=Trajectory
8	obey		Moti					nom obeisance «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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