The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 47

The prince, willing to gratify his request, told him their affairs from the beginning to the end.

Who acts: youngest · What happens: gratify, tell, request · To what, where: request, affairs, youngest, beginning · 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 (youngest), 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 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 willing	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 willing	punct
4	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 gratify	mark
6	gratify	gratify	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 willing	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 request	nmod:poss
8	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gratify	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 willing	parataxis
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 affairs	nmod:poss
13	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 told	obj
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 beginning	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 beginning	det
16	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 end	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 end	det
19	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 willing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	gratify	to-infinitive		youngest's request			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus request=Experiencer
2	tell speech: assert	past		Princes's affairs	youngest = young	from the beginning; to the end	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient affair=Topic
3	request		youngest = young				nom request «communication 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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