The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 79

So the king sent to ask Ciccu’s leave, and Ciccu answered that if the queen and the princess would be pleased to do him such great honour he would show them anything they wished.

Who acts: king, Ciccu, queen · What happens: send, ask, answer, be, do, show · To what, where: leave, king, queen · 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 (king, Ciccu, 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 sent	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 ask	mark
6	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sent	advcl
7	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 leave	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 Ciccu	case
9	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ask	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 answered	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 answered	cc
12	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 answered	nsubj
13	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	parataxis
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 pleased	mark
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 pleased	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 queen	det
17	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pleased	nsubj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 princess	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 princess	det
20	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 queen	conj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 pleased	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 pleased	cop
23	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 answered	ccomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 do	mark
25	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 pleased	xcomp
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 do	obj
27	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 honour	amod
28	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 honour	amod
29	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 do	obj
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 show	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 show	aux
32	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 answered	ccomp
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 show	obj
34	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	32 show	obj
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 wished	nsubj
36	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 anything	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	send	participle	the king			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	the king not said here	Ciccu's leave		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent leave=Recipient
3	answer speech: assert	past	Ciccu			tree rules
4	is a condition, not said to happen	would	the queen and the princess		pleased property	tree rules
5	do	to-infinitive	the queen and the princess not said here	king		tree rules
6	show	would	Ciccu	queen		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient anything=Topic
7	wish	past	queen			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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