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The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 38

His lordship’s face was full of trouble; and he asked me to hear him with patience, in a matter that highly concerned my honor and my life.

Who acts: face, Emperor, my · What happens: be, ask, hear, concern, honor · To what, where: me, Emperor, matter

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 (face, Emperor, my), 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

nmod:possnmod:posscasensubjcopcaseoblpunctccnsubjconjiobjmarkxcompobjcaseoblpunctcasedetapposobjadvmodacl:relclnmod:possobjccnmod:possconjpunctrootHisPRONlordshipNOUN’sPARTfaceNOUNwasAUXfullADJofADPtroubleNOUN;PUNCTandCCONJhePRONaskedVERBmePRONtoPARThearVERBhimPRONwithADPpatienceNOUN,PUNCTinADPaDETmatterNOUNthatPRONhighlyADVconcernedVERBmyPRONhonorNOUNandCCONJmyPRONlifeNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs2 lordshipnmod:poss
2lordshiplordshipNOUNNumber=Sing4 facenmod:poss
3’s'sPART_2 lordshipcase
4facefaceNOUNNumber=Sing6 fullnsubj
5wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 fullcop
6fullfullADJDegree=Posrootroot
7ofofADP_8 troublecase
8troubletroubleNOUNNumber=Sing6 fullobl
9;;PUNCT_12 askedpunct
10andandCCONJ_12 askedcc
11hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 askednsubj
12askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 fullconj
13meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs12 askediobj
14totoPART_15 hearmark
15hearhearVERBVerbForm=Inf12 askedxcomp
16himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 hearobj
17withwithADP_18 patiencecase
18patiencepatienceNOUNNumber=Sing15 hearobl
19,,PUNCT_22 matterpunct
20ininADP_22 mattercase
21aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art22 matterdet
22mattermatterNOUNNumber=Sing18 patienceappos
23thatthatPRONPronType=Rel25 concernedobj
24highlyhighlyADV_25 concernedadvmod
25concernedconcernVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 matteracl:relcl
26mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs27 honornmod:poss
27honorhonorNOUNNumber=Sing25 concernedobj
28andandCCONJ_30 lifecc
29mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 lifenmod:poss
30lifelifeNOUNNumber=Sing27 honorconj
31..PUNCT_6 fullpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastEmperor's lordship's faceof trouble; full propertytree rules
2ask speech: askpastEmperormevn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3hear not said to happento-infinitiveEmperor not said hereEmperorwith patiencevn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4concernpasta matterhighly propertyvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus that=Experiencer honor=Result
5honormynom honor «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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