The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 32

Having been privately told that I had befriended them, they made me a visit, and paying me many compliments on my valor and generosity, invited me to their kingdom in the Emperor their master’s name.

Who acts: I, ambassadors, master · What happens: have, tell, befriend, make, pay, invite · To what, where: ambassadors, visit, me, valor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, ambassadors, master), 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	Having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 told	ccomp
2	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 told	aux:pass
3	privately	privately	ADV	_	4 told	advmod
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 befriended	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 befriended	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 befriended	aux
8	befriended	befriend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 told	ccomp
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 befriended	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 made	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 made	nsubj
12	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 made	obj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 visit	det
15	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 made	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 paying	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 paying	cc
18	paying	pay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 made	advcl
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 paying	obj
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 compliments	amod
21	compliments	compliment	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 paying	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 valor	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 valor	nmod:poss
24	valor	valor	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 paying	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 generosity	cc
26	generosity	generosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 valor	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 invited	punct
28	invited	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 invited	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 kingdom	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 kingdom	nmod:poss
32	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 invited	obl
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 Emperor	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Emperor	det
35	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 invited	obl
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 master	nmod:poss
37	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 name	nmod:poss
38	’s	's	PART	_	37 master	case
39	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 invited	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	gerund						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	participle · passive					privately property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: clause=Topic
3	befriend	past · perfect	I	ambassadors = ambassador				tree rules
4	make	past	ambassadors = ambassador	a visit	me			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary visit=Product
5	pay	gerund	ambassadors = ambassador not said here		me	my valor and generosity		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient compliment=Asset
6	invite	past		me			to ambassadors's kingdom; in the Emperor	tree rules
7	name		ambassadors's master					nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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