The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 29
Therefore beg, I pray you, his most gracious majesty to send this evening a shut carriage, and I will return in it to the castle.
Who acts: I · What happens: pray, send, return · To what, where: beg, shut carriage, ray
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 2 beg | advmod |
| 2 | beg | beg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pray | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 beg | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 pray | nsubj |
| 5 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 pray | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 majesty | punct |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 9 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 10 gracious | advmod |
| 10 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 majesty | amod |
| 11 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pray | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 send | mark |
| 13 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 majesty | acl |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 evening | det |
| 15 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 send | obj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 carriage | det |
| 17 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 carriage | amod |
| 18 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 send | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 return | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 return | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 return | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 return | aux |
| 23 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pray | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 return | obl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 castle | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 castle | det |
| 28 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 return | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | present | I | beg | King's gracious majesty obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | send | to-infinitive | I not said here | a shut carriage | evening | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carriage=Theme | |||
| 3 | return | future | I | ray | to the castle result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to castle=Result |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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