The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 126

When Alfin reached the castle he knocked at the door and said to the servant: ‘Here is a basket of lovely figs, if his majesty will be good enough to accept them with my humble duty.’

Who acts: Alfin, basket, majesty · What happens: reach, knock, say, be, accept · To what, where: castle, servant, 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 (Alfin, basket, 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	Alfin	Alfin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 knocked	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 castle	det
5	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 knocked	nsubj
7	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 door	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 knocked	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 knocked	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 servant	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 servant	det
15	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 Here	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 Here	punct
18	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 said	ccomp
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 Here	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 basket	det
21	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Here	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 figs	case
23	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 figs	amod
24	figs	fig	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 basket	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 good	punct
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 good	mark
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 majesty	nmod:poss
28	majesty	majesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 good	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 good	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 good	cop
31	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	parataxis
32	enough	enough	ADV	_	31 good	advmod
33	to	to	PART	_	34 accept	mark
34	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 good	csubj
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 accept	obj
36	with	with	ADP	_	39 duty	case
37	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 duty	nmod:poss
38	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 duty	amod
39	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 accept	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 knocked	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	reach	past	Alfin	the castle			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent castle=Theme
2	knock	past	Alfin			at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	Alfin not said here		the servant		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to servant=Recipient
4	is	present	a basket of lovely figs			here property	tree rules
5	is a condition, not said to happen	future	Alfin's majesty			enough, good property	tree rules
6	accept	to-infinitive		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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