The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 31

At last we received a visit from the wizard, who told us what had happened at court, and your story, bidding me to put myself in your way when you had lost all hope, and offer to save you if you would consent to marry me.

Who acts: last, wizard, story, you · What happens: receive, tell, happen, bid, put, lose · To what, where: visit, us, court, me, myself, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last, wizard, story, you), 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	At	at	SCONJ	_	4 received	mark
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 received	nsubj
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 received	nsubj
4	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 offer	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 visit	det
6	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 received	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 wizard	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wizard	det
9	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 received	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wizard	acl:relcl
13	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 happened	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 happened	aux
16	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 told	ccomp
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 court	case
18	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 happened	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bidding	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bidding	cc
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 story	nmod:poss
22	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bidding	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bidding	punct
24	bidding	bid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 received	advcl
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 bidding	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 put	mark
27	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 bidding	advcl
28	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 put	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 way	case
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 way	nmod:poss
31	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 put	obl
32	when	when	SCONJ	_	35 lost	mark
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 lost	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 lost	aux
35	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 put	advcl
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 hope	det
37	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 lost	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 offer	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 offer	cc
40	offer	offer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
41	to	to	PART	_	42 save	mark
42	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 offer	xcomp
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 save	obj
44	if	if	SCONJ	_	47 consent	mark
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	47 consent	nsubj
46	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 consent	aux
47	consent	consent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 save	advcl
48	to	to	PART	_	49 marry	mark
49	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 consent	xcomp
50	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 marry	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	40 offer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	receive	past	last	a visit			from the wizard	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent visit=Theme from wizard=Source
2	tell speech: assert	past	the wizard		us			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic
3	happen	past · perfect				court		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at court=Location
4	bid	gerund	your story	me				tree rules
5	put	to-infinitive	your story not said here	myself		your way		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent myself=Theme in way=Destination
6	lose	past · perfect	you	all hope				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Eventuality
7	offer	imperative	you not said here					tree rules
8	save not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	you				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
9	consent a condition, not said to happen	would	you					vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
10	marry	to-infinitive	you not said here	me				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient

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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