The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 24

‘Do not be alarmed, my prince,’ said Peronnik, ‘I am just on my way to Kerglas, as the noble Rogear has begged me to come to him on business.’

Who acts: Peronnik, I · What happens: not alarm, say, be, beg, come · To what, where: prince, Kerglas, way, noble Rogear, me, Peronnik · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peronnik, I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 alarmed	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 alarmed	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 alarmed	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 alarmed	aux:pass
5	alarmed	alarm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 prince	punct
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 prince	nmod:poss
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 alarmed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 alarmed	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 alarmed	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 way	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 way	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 way	nsubj
16	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 way	cop
17	just	just	ADV	_	20 way	advmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 way	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 way	nmod:poss
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 Kerglas	case
22	Kerglas	Kerglas	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 way	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 begged	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 begged	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Rogear	det
26	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Rogear	amod
27	Rogear	Rogear	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 begged	nsubj:pass
28	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 begged	aux
29	begged	beg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 said	conj
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 begged	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 come	mark
32	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 begged	advcl
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 come	obl
35	on	on	ADP	_	36 business	case
36	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 come	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	not alarm	infinitive · passive · do-support		my prince			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
2	say speech: assert	past	Peronnik				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	present	I		Kerglas	my way	tree rules
4	beg speech: request	present · perfect · passive		the noble Rogear	me		tree rules
5	come	to-infinitive			Peronnik	business	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location

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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