The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 51

‘From whence do you come, then?’ inquired the King, for by this time he wanted to know a little more about the men before he took any of them into his service.

Who acts: you, King · What happens: come, inquire, want, know, take, service · To what, where: King, more, any, service · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
2	From	from	SCONJ	_	6 come	mark
3	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	6 come	advmod
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 come	nsubj
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 inquired	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 then	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 come	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
11	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 King	det
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 inquired	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wanted	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 time	case
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 time	case
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 time	det
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wanted	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wanted	nsubj
20	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 inquired	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 know	mark
22	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 wanted	xcomp
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 little	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 more	obl:unmarked
25	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 know	obj
26	about	about	ADP	_	28 men	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 men	det
28	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 more	obl
29	before	before	SCONJ	_	31 took	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 took	nsubj
31	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 know	advcl
32	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	31 took	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 any	nmod
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 service	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 service	nmod:poss
37	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 took	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 inquired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present · do-support	you			then	whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	inquire speech: other	past		the King				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic
3	want	past	King			time		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	King not said here	more				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus
5	take	past	King	any	King's service			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent any=Theme into service=Destination
6	service		King					nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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