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The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 33

I asked them to present my most humble respects to the Emperor their master, whose royal person I resolved to attend before I returned to my own country.

Who acts: I · What happens: ask, present, resolve, attend, return · To what, where: ambassadors, humble respects, Emperor, royal person

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), 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

nsubjobjmarkxcompnmod:possadvmodamodobjcasedetoblnmod:possconjpunctnmod:possamodapposnsubjacl:relclmarkxcompmarknsubjccompcasenmod:possamodoblpunctrootIPRONaskedVERBthemPRONtoPARTpresentVERBmyPRONmostADVhumbleADJrespectsNOUNtoADPtheDETEmperorPROPNtheirPRONmasterNOUN,PUNCTwhosePRONroyalADJpersonNOUNIPRONresolvedVERBtoPARTattendVERBbeforeSCONJIPRONreturnedVERBtoADPmyPRONownADJcountryNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs2 askednsubj
2askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs2 askedobj
4totoPART_5 presentmark
5presentpresentVERBVerbForm=Inf2 askedxcomp
6mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 respectsnmod:poss
7mostmostADVDegree=Sup8 humbleadvmod
8humblehumbleADJDegree=Pos9 respectsamod
9respectsrespectsNOUNNumber=Plur5 presentobj
10totoADP_12 Emperorcase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 Emperordet
12EmperorEmperorPROPNNumber=Sing5 presentobl
13theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs14 masternmod:poss
14mastermasterNOUNNumber=Sing5 presentconj
15,,PUNCT_18 personpunct
16whosewhosePRONPoss=Yes PronType=Rel18 personnmod:poss
17royalroyalADJDegree=Pos18 personamod
18personpersonNOUNNumber=Sing14 masterappos
19IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs20 resolvednsubj
20resolvedresolveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 personacl:relcl
21totoPART_22 attendmark
22attendattendVERBVerbForm=Inf20 resolvedxcomp
23beforebeforeSCONJ_25 returnedmark
24IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs25 returnednsubj
25returnedreturnVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 attendccomp
26totoADP_29 countrycase
27mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 countrynmod:poss
28ownownADJDegree=Pos29 countryamod
29countrycountryNOUNNumber=Sing25 returnedobl
30..PUNCT_2 askedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ask speech: askpastIambassadors = ambassadorvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2present not said to happento-infinitiveI not said heremy humble respectsthe Emperorvn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent respects=Theme to emperor=Recipient
3resolvepastIambassadors's master's royal person not said heretree rules
4attendto-infinitiveI not said heretree rules
5returnpastIto my own country resultvn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to country=Result

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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