The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 49

I desired the secretary to present my humble duty to the Emperor, and to let him know that I was ready, at the risk of my life, to defend him against all invaders.

Who acts: I, empire · What happens: desire, present, let, know, be, defend · To what, where: secretary, humble duty, Emperor, empire, risk, life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, empire), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 desired	nsubj
2	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 secretary	det
4	secretary	secretary	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 desired	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 present	mark
6	present	present	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 desired	ccomp
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 duty	nmod:poss
8	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 duty	amod
9	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 present	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 Emperor	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Emperor	det
12	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 present	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 let	cc
15	to	to	PART	_	16 let	mark
16	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 desired	parataxis
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 let	obj
18	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	xcomp
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 ready	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 ready	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 ready	cop
22	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 know	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 risk	punct
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 risk	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 risk	det
26	risk	risk	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ready	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 life	case
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 life	nmod:poss
29	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 risk	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 defend	punct
31	to	to	PART	_	32 defend	mark
32	defend	defend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 let	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 defend	obj
34	against	against	ADP	_	36 invaders	case
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 invaders	det
36	invaders	invader	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 defend	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 desired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	desire	past	I	the secretary				tree rules
2	present not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	my humble duty	the Emperor			vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent duty=Theme to emperor=Recipient
3	let	to-infinitive		empire				tree rules
4	know	infinitive	empire not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	I			the risk of my life	ready property	tree rules
6	defend	to-infinitive			empire		against all invaders	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary against invader=Theme
7	risk			my life				nom risk «state transitive»: of=patient

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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