The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 80

So he ordered him to retire from his Court, though he still, from time to time, spoke of him as a worthy man whom he respected, even if he no longer loved him.

Who acts: brother · What happens: order, retire, speak, respect, love · To what, where: finding, Court, worthy man · 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 (brother), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 ordered	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ordered	nsubj
3	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ordered	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 retire	mark
6	retire	retire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ordered	xcomp
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 Court	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 Court	nmod:poss
9	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 retire	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 still	punct
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	13 still	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 still	nsubj
13	still	still	ADV	_	6 retire	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 time	punct
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 time	case
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 retire	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 time	case
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 time	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 spoke	punct
20	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ordered	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 spoke	obl
23	as	as	ADP	_	26 man	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 man	det
25	worthy	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 spoke	obl
27	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 respected	obj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 respected	nsubj
29	respected	respect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 man	acl:relcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 loved	punct
31	even	even	ADV	_	36 loved	advmod
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 loved	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 loved	nsubj
34	no	no	ADV	_	35 longer	advmod
35	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	36 loved	advmod
36	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 respected	conj
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 loved	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	past	brother		finding				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	retire not said to happen	to-infinitive	brother not said here			brother's Court	still; time		vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from court=Source
3	speak speech: other	past	brother not said here					of brother; as a worthy man	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	respect	past	brother	a worthy man					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
5	love a condition, not said to happen	past	brother	finding				long property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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