The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 115

‘I have a basket of lovely figs for the king,’ he said to the servant who opened it, ‘if his majesty will be graciously pleased to accept them with my humble duty.’

Who acts: I, man, servant, majesty · What happens: have, say, open, be, accept · To what, where: basket, figs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, man, servant, majesty), 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	_	3 have	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 basket	det
5	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 figs	case
7	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 figs	amod
8	figs	fig	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 basket	nmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 king	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 figs	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 servant	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 servant	det
18	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obl
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 opened	nsubj
20	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 servant	acl:relcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 opened	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 pleased	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	30 pleased	punct
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 pleased	mark
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 majesty	nmod:poss
26	majesty	majesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 pleased	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 pleased	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 pleased	cop
29	graciously	graciously	ADV	_	30 pleased	advmod
30	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 said	ccomp
31	to	to	PART	_	32 accept	mark
32	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 pleased	xcomp
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 accept	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	37 duty	case
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 duty	nmod:poss
36	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 duty	amod
37	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 accept	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	a basket of lovely figs for the king		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	man		to the servant	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to servant=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	open	past	the servant	basket		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
4	is a condition, not said to happen	future	man's majesty		graciously, pleased property	tree rules
5	accept	to-infinitive	man's majesty not said here	figs = fig	with my humble duty	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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