The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 26

The King immediately summoned the lad into his presence, and said that he had been informed that he had said that it was in his power to rescue the Princess, so he was now to do it.

Who acts: King, presence · What happens: summon, say, inform, be, rescue · To what, where: lad, presence, King, power, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, presence), 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 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 summoned	nsubj
3	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	4 summoned	advmod
4	summoned	summon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lad	det
6	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 summoned	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 presence	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 presence	nmod:poss
9	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 summoned	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 summoned	parataxis
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 informed	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 informed	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 informed	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 informed	aux:pass
17	informed	inform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 said	ccomp
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 said	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 said	aux
21	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 informed	ccomp
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 power	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 power	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 power	cop
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 power	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 power	nmod:poss
27	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	ccomp
28	to	to	PART	_	29 rescue	mark
29	rescue	rescue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 power	acl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Princess	det
31	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 rescue	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 do	punct
33	so	so	ADV	_	38 do	advmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 do	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 do	cop
36	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 do	advmod
37	to	to	PART	_	38 do	mark
38	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	conj
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 do	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 summoned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	summon	past	the King	the lad	King's presence		immediately property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	inform speech: other	past · perfect · passive		King				vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
4	say speech: assert	past · perfect	King					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	presence		King's power			tree rules
6	rescue	to-infinitive	King not said here	the Princess				vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme
7	is	past	King			now	do property	tree rules

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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