The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 34

He readily consented to her desire, and his sons were sent for to the tower, who gladly came to Court, rejoicing that they were freed from such confinement.

Who acts: bargain, tower, Queen · What happens: consent, send, come, rejoice, free, desire · To what, where: sons, Court, such confinement

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 (bargain, tower, Queen), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 consented	nsubj
2	readily	readily	ADV	_	3 consented	advmod
3	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 desire	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 desire	nmod:poss
6	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 consented	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sent	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sent	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sons	nmod:poss
10	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sent	nsubj:pass
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sent	aux:pass
12	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 consented	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 tower	case
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 tower	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tower	det
16	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sent	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 came	nsubj
19	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	20 came	advmod
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 tower	acl:relcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 Court	case
22	Court	Court	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 came	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rejoicing	punct
24	rejoicing	rejoice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 sent	advcl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 freed	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 freed	nsubj:pass
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 freed	aux:pass
28	freed	free	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 rejoicing	advcl
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 confinement	case
30	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 confinement	amod
31	confinement	confinement	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 freed	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 consented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	consent	past	bargain			to Queen's desire; readily property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to desire=Theme
2	send	past · passive		bargain's sons		for the tower	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	come	past	the tower		Court	gladly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial_Location
4	rejoice	gerund					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	free	past · passive		sons = son	such confinement		vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source
6	desire		Queen				nom desire «feeling 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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