The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 21

At last they came to the king and said to him, ‘O king! your palace is beautiful indeed, but to be worthy of you it lacks one thing--the sword of the Man-eater.’

Who acts: brothers, king, palace · What happens: come, say, be, lack · To what, where: last, king, one thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, king, palace), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 king	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 king	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 king	punct
14	O	o	INTJ	_	15 king	discourse
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 beautiful	nsubj
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 king	punct
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 palace	nmod:poss
18	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 beautiful	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 beautiful	cop
20	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
21	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	20 beautiful	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 worthy	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 worthy	cc
24	to	to	PART	_	26 worthy	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 worthy	cop
26	worthy	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 lacks	advcl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 you	case
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 worthy	obl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 lacks	nsubj
30	lacks	lack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 thing	nummod
32	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lacks	obj
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	35 sword	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 sword	det
35	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 thing	appos
36	of	of	ADP	_	40 eater	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 eater	det
38	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 eater	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 Man	punct
40	eater	eater	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sword	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 lacks	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	30 lacks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	brothers = brother			last	to the king	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	brothers = brother not said here		king			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
3	is	present	king				beautiful, indeed property	tree rules
4	is	to-infinitive	palace not said here				of you; worthy property	tree rules
5	lack	present	palace	one thing				tree rules

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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