The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 85

Nevertheless, as he was in no hurry to part with his crown, he told his sons that, as they had been so successful the first time, he would ask them to go once again, and seek by land and sea for a piece of muslin so fine that it could be drawn through the eye of a needle.

Who acts: king, sons · What happens: be, tell, ask, go, seek, draw · To what, where: hurry, sons, kingdom, eye · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, sons), 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	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	16 told	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nevertheless	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 hurry	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hurry	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hurry	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 hurry	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 hurry	det
8	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 part	mark
10	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hurry	advcl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 crown	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 crown	nmod:poss
13	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 part	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hurry	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	nsubj
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 sons	nmod:poss
18	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 told	iobj
19	that	that	ADV	_	16 told	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 successful	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 successful	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 successful	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 successful	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 successful	cop
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 successful	advmod
26	successful	successful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 told	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 time	det
28	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 time	amod
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 successful	obl:unmarked
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 ask	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 ask	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 ask	aux
33	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 successful	parataxis
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 ask	iobj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 go	mark
36	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 ask	xcomp
37	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	36 go	advmod
38	again	again	ADV	_	36 go	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 seek	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 seek	cc
41	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 ask	conj
42	by	by	ADP	_	43 land	case
43	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 seek	obl
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 sea	cc
45	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 land	conj
46	for	for	ADP	_	48 piece	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 piece	det
48	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 seek	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 muslin	case
50	muslin	muslin	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 piece	nmod
51	so	so	ADV	_	52 fine	advmod
52	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 seek	conj
53	that	that	SCONJ	_	57 drawn	mark
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 drawn	nsubj:pass
55	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 drawn	aux
56	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	57 drawn	aux:pass
57	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 fine	advcl
58	through	through	ADP	_	60 eye	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 eye	det
60	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 drawn	obl
61	of	of	ADP	_	63 needle	case
62	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	63 needle	det
63	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 eye	nmod
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	king			no hurry			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	king		king's sons			nevertheless, that property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient
3	is	past · perfect	sons = son				time	successful property	tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	would	king		sons = son				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
5	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	king not said here				again	once property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	seek	infinitive	king not said here					by land and sea; for a piece of muslin	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent by land=Location for piece=Theme
7	draw	could · passive		kingdom		the eye of a needle			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
8	crown		king						nom crown «communication transitive»: 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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