The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter V, sentence 12

The Emperor of Blefuscu, with the Empress and the royal family, came out of the palace; and I lay down on my face to kiss their hands, which they graciously gave me.

Who acts: Emperor, I, hand · What happens: come out, lay down, kiss, give · To what, where: palace, face, hands, me

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emperor, I, hand), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Emperor	det
2	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 came	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Blefuscu	case
4	Blefuscu	Blefuscu	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Emperor	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Empress	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 Empress	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Empress	det
8	Empress	Empress	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Emperor	appos
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 family	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 family	det
11	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 family	amod
12	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Emperor	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Emperor	punct
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	out	out	ADP	_	18 palace	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 palace	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 palace	det
18	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 lay	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 lay	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 lay	nsubj
22	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 came	conj
23	down	down	ADV	_	22 lay	advmod
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 face	case
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 face	nmod:poss
26	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lay	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 kiss	mark
28	kiss	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 lay	advcl
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 hands	nmod:poss
30	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 kiss	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 gave	punct
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 gave	obj
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 gave	nsubj
34	graciously	graciously	ADV	_	35 gave	advmod
35	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 hands	acl:relcl
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 gave	iobj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come out	past	the Emperor of Blefuscu and the royal family	the palace				vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient palace=Result
2	lay down	present	I			my face	down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on face=Destination
3	kiss	to-infinitive	I not said here	princes's hands				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent
4	give	past	hand	princes's hands	me		graciously property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient which=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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