The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 41

When he was admitted to his presence, he knelt down and touched the ground with his forehead, and the king bade him stand up and tell wherefore he had come.

Who acts: rage · What happens: admit, kneel down, touch, stand up, tell, come · To what, where: rage, presence, ground, king bade · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (rage), 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 admitted	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 admitted	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 admitted	aux:pass
4	admitted	admit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 presence	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 presence	nmod:poss
7	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 admitted	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 knelt	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 knelt	nsubj
10	knelt	kneel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 admitted	conj
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 knelt	compound:prt
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 touched	cc
13	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 knelt	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ground	det
15	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 touched	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 forehead	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 forehead	nmod:poss
18	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 touched	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stand	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 stand	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bade	det
22	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bade	compound
23	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stand	obl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bade	obj
25	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 admitted	advcl
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 stand	compound:prt
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 tell	cc
28	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 stand	conj
29	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	PronType=Int	32 come	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 come	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 come	aux
32	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 tell	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 admitted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	admit speech: other	past · passive		rage	rage's presence		vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to presence=Recipient
2	kneel down	past	rage				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	touch	past	rage not said here	the ground		with rage's forehead	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent ground=Experiencer with forehead=Instrument
4	stand up	present		the king bade			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert	infinitive					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	come	past · perfect	rage			wherefore property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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