The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 58
At last, having his Majesty’s leave to pay my respects to the Emperor of Blefuscu, I resolved to take this opportunity.
Who acts: I · What happens: have, pay, resolve, take · To what, where: leave, respects, last, opportunity
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 resolved | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 having | punct |
| 4 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 last | advcl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 leave | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Majesty | case |
| 8 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 having | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 pay | mark |
| 10 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 having | advcl |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 respects | nmod:poss |
| 12 | respects | respects | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pay | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Emperor | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Emperor | det |
| 15 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 pay | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Blefuscu | case |
| 17 | Blefuscu | Blefuscu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Emperor | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 resolved | nsubj |
| 20 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 take | mark |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 resolved | xcomp |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 opportunity | det |
| 24 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | I not said here | Emperor's Majesty's leave | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pay | 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 | resolve | past | I | last | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | I not said here | this opportunity | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme |
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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