The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 36

When I was just preparing to pay my respects to the Emperor of Blefuscu, a distinguished person at Court, to whom I had once done a great service, came to my house very privately at night, and without sending his name desired admission.

Who acts: I, Emperor · What happens: prepare, pay, do, come, send, desire · To what, where: distinguished person, Court, respects, great service, house, name

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, Emperor), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 preparing	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 preparing	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 preparing	aux
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 preparing	advmod
5	preparing	prepare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 came	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 pay	mark
7	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 preparing	xcomp
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 respects	nmod:poss
9	respects	respects	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pay	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	7 pay	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Blefuscu	case
14	Blefuscu	Blefuscu	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Emperor	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 preparing	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 person	det
17	distinguished	distinguished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 person	amod
18	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 preparing	obj
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 Court	case
20	Court	Court	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 person	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 whom	punct
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 whom	case
23	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 preparing	obl
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 done	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 done	aux
26	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	27 done	advmod
27	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 whom	acl:relcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 service	det
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 service	amod
30	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 done	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 preparing	punct
32	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 house	case
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 house	nmod:poss
35	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 came	obl
36	very	very	ADV	_	37 privately	advmod
37	privately	privately	ADV	_	32 came	advmod
38	at	at	ADP	_	39 night	case
39	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 privately	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 sending	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 sending	cc
42	without	without	SCONJ	_	43 sending	mark
43	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 came	advcl
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 name	nmod:poss
45	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 sending	obj
46	desired	desire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 admission	amod
47	admission	admission	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 sending	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	prepare	past · progressive	I	a distinguished person	Court		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme clause=Attribute
2	pay not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	my respects		to the Emperor of Blefuscu	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respects=Asset
3	do	past · perfect	I	a great service		once property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Eventuality
4	come	past			my house	privately property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
5	send	gerund		Emperor's name			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent name=Destination admission=Theme
6	desire	participle					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	name		Emperor				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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