The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 70

This counsel pleased the King, and he sent one of his courtiers down to the little tailor, to offer him, when he awoke, a commission in their army.

Who acts: counsel, King · What happens: send, offer, awake · To what, where: one, little tailor, King, commission, army

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (counsel, King), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 counsel	det
2	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sent	nsubj
3	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 King	amod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 counsel	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sent	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sent	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sent	nsubj
9	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 sent	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 courtiers	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 courtiers	nmod:poss
13	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 one	nmod
14	down	down	ADV	_	18 tailor	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 tailor	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tailor	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tailor	amod
18	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sent	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 offer	punct
20	to	to	PART	_	21 offer	mark
21	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sent	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 offer	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 awoke	punct
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 awoke	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 awoke	nsubj
26	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sent	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 commission	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 commission	det
29	commission	commission	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 awoke	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 army	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 army	nmod:poss
32	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 awoke	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	send	past	this counsel	one of King's courtiers	the little tailor		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme to tailor=Destination
2	offer	to-infinitive	this counsel not said here	King			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	awake	past	King	a commission		courtiers's army	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location commission=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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