The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 40

Therefore that very afternoon he made his way to the palace and asked to see the king.

Who acts: afternoon · What happens: make, ask, see · To what, where: way, king

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (afternoon), 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	Therefore	therefore	ADV	_	6 made	advmod
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 afternoon	det
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 afternoon	advmod
4	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 made	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 way	nmod:poss
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 palace	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 palace	det
11	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 asked	cc
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 see	mark
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 asked	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 king	det
17	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 see	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	that afternoon	rage's way	to the palace; therefore property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product
2	ask speech: ask	past	that afternoon not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	that afternoon not said here	the king		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=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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