The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 3, sentence 12

Presently they sat down to the banquet, and the King asked Miranda to tell them all that had happened to her since the terrible morning when he had sent the Captain of the Guard to fetch her.

Who acts: arms, King, that · What happens: sit down, ask, tell, happen, send, fetch · To what, where: Miranda, arms, sister, Captain · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arms, King, that), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 banquet	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 banquet	det
7	banquet	banquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 asked	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 asked	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 King	det
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 asked	nsubj
12	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
13	Miranda	Miranda	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 asked	iobj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 tell	mark
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 asked	xcomp
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tell	iobj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 that	det:predet
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 happened	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 happened	aux
20	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 tell	ccomp
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 her	case
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 happened	obl
23	since	since	ADP	_	26 morning	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 morning	det
25	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 morning	amod
26	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 happened	obl
27	when	when	SCONJ	_	30 sent	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sent	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sent	aux
30	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 happened	advcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Captain	det
32	Captain	Captain	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 sent	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 Guard	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Guard	det
35	Guard	Guard	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Captain	nmod
36	to	to	PART	_	37 fetch	mark
37	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 sent	advcl
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 fetch	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	arms = arm				to the banquet; down, presently property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ask speech: ask	past	the King		Miranda			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent miranda=Recipient clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	the King not said here		arms = arm			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	happen	past · perfect	that		sister	morning		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	send	past · perfect	King	the Captain of the Guard				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captain=Theme
6	fetch	to-infinitive	King not said here	sister				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 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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