The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 106

He saw Suliman seated upon a magnificent throne, and all the people crowded round, wishing him a long life that he might undo all the mischief done by his predecessor.

Who acts: Darling, Suliman · What happens: see, seat, wish, undo, do · To what, where: Darling, mischief · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Darling, Suliman), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Suliman	Suliman	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 seated	nsubj
4	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	ccomp
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 throne	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 throne	det
7	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 throne	amod
8	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seated	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 crowded	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 crowded	cc
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 people	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 people	det
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 crowded	nsubj
14	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 saw	conj
15	round	round	ADV	_	14 crowded	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wishing	punct
17	wishing	wish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 saw	advcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wishing	obj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 life	det
20	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 life	amod
21	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wishing	obj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 undo	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 undo	nsubj
24	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 undo	aux
25	undo	undo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 wishing	advcl
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 mischief	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 mischief	det
28	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 undo	obj
29	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 undo	xcomp
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 predecessor	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 predecessor	nmod:poss
32	predecessor	predecessor	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 done	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	Darling			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	seat	past	Suliman		upon a magnificent throne	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location
3	wish	gerund	Darling not said here	Darling		tree rules
4	undo	might	Darling	all mischief		tree rules
5	do	participle	Darling not said here		by Darling's predecessor	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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