The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 39

When he had been at home for some days his mother wanted him to go up to the palace, to show the King what a great man he had become.

Who acts: father, mother · What happens: be, want, go up, show, become · To what, where: home, father, King, great man

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, mother), 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	SCONJ	_	4 been	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 been	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 been	aux
4	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 wanted	advcl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 home	case
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 been	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 days	case
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 days	det
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 wanted	obl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wanted	nsubj
12	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wanted	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 go	mark
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wanted	xcomp
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 go	compound:prt
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 palace	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 palace	det
19	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 go	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 show	punct
21	to	to	PART	_	22 show	mark
22	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 go	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 King	det
24	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 show	obj
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 King	nmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 man	det
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 man	amod
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 what	nsubj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 become	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 become	aux
31	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 man	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past · perfect	father			home			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location
2	want	past	father's mother	father			day		tree rules
3	go up not said to happen	to-infinitive	father not said here					to the palace	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	show	to-infinitive	father not said here		the King				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient
5	become	past · perfect	father	a great man not said here					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient man=Result

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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