The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 37

Very soon the rajah himself heard of the jogi, and began regularly to visit him to seek his counsel and to ask his prayers that a son might be vouchsafed to him.

Who acts: rajah · What happens: hear, begin, visit, seek, ask, vouchsafe · To what, where: rajah, counsel, prayers, son · 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 (rajah), 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	Very	very	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rajah	det
4	rajah	rajah	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	nsubj
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 heard	nsubj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 soon	parataxis
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 jogi	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 jogi	det
9	jogi	jogi	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 began	cc
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	conj
13	regularly	regularly	ADV	_	12 began	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 visit	mark
15	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 began	xcomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 visit	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 seek	mark
18	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 visit	advcl
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 counsel	nmod:poss
20	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seek	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 ask	cc
22	to	to	PART	_	23 ask	mark
23	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 seek	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 prayers	nmod:poss
25	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 ask	obj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 vouchsafed	mark
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 son	det
28	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 vouchsafed	nsubj:pass
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 vouchsafed	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 vouchsafed	aux:pass
31	vouchsafed	vouchsafe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 ask	ccomp
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 vouchsafed	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 soon	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the rajah			of the jogi	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of jogi=Stimulus
2	begin	past	the rajah not said here			regularly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	visit	to-infinitive	the rajah not said here	rajah			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
4	seek	to-infinitive	the rajah not said here	rajah's counsel			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme
5	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	the rajah not said here	rajah's prayers			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent prayer=Recipient clause=Topic
6	vouchsafe	might · passive		a son	rajah		tree rules
7	pray		rajah				nom prayer «act intransitive»: 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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