The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 31

The King will then do so, and there will be a great feast prepared on that account, and also diversions of every sort to amuse the people; and in these sports,’ said she, ‘ask the King’s sons to play a game at cards with you, which they will not refuse.

Who acts: King, wife, sons · What happens: do, be, prepare, amuse, say, ask · To what, where: diversions, great feast, account, people, sports, sons · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, wife, sons), 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	5 do	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 do	advmod
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	5 do	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 feast	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 be	cc
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 be	expl
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 be	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 feast	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 feast	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 feast	amod
14	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
15	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 feast	acl
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 account	case
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 account	det
18	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 prepared	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 diversions	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 diversions	cc
21	also	also	ADV	_	22 diversions	advmod
22	diversions	diversion	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 sort	case
24	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	25 sort	det
25	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 diversions	nmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 amuse	mark
27	amuse	amuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 diversions	acl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 people	det
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 amuse	obj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 said	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 said	cc
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 sports	case
33	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	34 sports	det
34	sports	sport	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 said	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sports	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	34 sports	punct
37	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	parataxis
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 said	nsubj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 ask	punct
40	‘	'	PUNCT	_	41 ask	punct
41	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 said	conj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 King	det
43	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 sons	nmod:poss
44	’s	's	PART	_	43 King	case
45	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 ask	obj
46	to	to	PART	_	47 play	mark
47	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 ask	xcomp
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 game	det
49	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 play	obj
50	at	at	ADP	_	51 cards	case
51	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 play	obl
52	with	with	ADP	_	53 you	case
53	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	47 play	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 refuse	punct
55	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	59 refuse	obj
56	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 refuse	nsubj
57	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 refuse	aux
58	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	59 refuse	advmod
59	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 play	conj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	future	the King	diversions of every sort			then		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	infinitive		a great feast					tree rules
3	prepare	participle		a great feast not said here		that account			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	amuse	to-infinitive	the King not said here	the people					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer
5	say speech: assert	past	wife			this sports			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in sport=Manner
6	ask speech: ask	infinitive	wife not said here		the King's sons				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent son=Recipient clause=Topic
7	play not said to happen	to-infinitive	wife not said here	a game		cards		with you	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent game=Theme with you=Co-Agent
8	not refuse	future	sons = son						vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme
9	divert			every sort					nom diversion «act transitive»: of=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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