The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 80
Upon this the King commanded Graciosa to dismount and to beg the Duchess to honour her by mounting her horse.
Who acts: King · What happens: command, dismount, beg, honour, mount · To what, where: Graciosa, Duchess, horse · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 commanded | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 commanded | nsubj |
| 5 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Graciosa | Graciosa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 commanded | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 dismount | mark |
| 8 | dismount | dismount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 commanded | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 beg | cc |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 beg | mark |
| 11 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 dismount | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Duchess | det |
| 13 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 beg | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 honour | mark |
| 15 | honour | honour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 beg | xcomp |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 honour | obj |
| 17 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 18 mounting | mark |
| 18 | mounting | mount | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 honour | advcl |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 horse | nmod:poss |
| 20 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mounting | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | past | the King | Graciosa | upon this | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent graciosa=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | dismount not said to happen | to-infinitive | the King not said here | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | to-infinitive | the King not said here | the Duchess | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent duchess=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | honour not said to happen | to-infinitive | the King not said here | Graciosa | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | mount | gerund | the King not said here | Graciosa's horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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