The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 42

By-and-bye the fame of his riches reached the ears of the king, and, as he himself was always in need of money, he sent for Don Giovanni, as he wished to borrow a large sum.

Who acts: Don · What happens: reach, be, send, wish, borrow · To what, where: ears, need, large sum

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Don), 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	By	by	ADP	_	7 fame	case
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 fame	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fame	cc
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 and	punct
5	bye	bye	INTJ	_	7 fame	discourse
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fame	det
7	fame	fame	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reached	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 riches	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 riches	nmod:poss
10	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fame	nmod
11	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ears	det
13	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 reached	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 king	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 king	det
16	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ears	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 need	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 need	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 and	punct
20	as	as	ADP	_	21 he	case
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 need	nsubj
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	21 he	nmod:unmarked
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 need	cop
24	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	26 need	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 need	case
26	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reached	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 money	case
28	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 need	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sent	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sent	nsubj
31	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 reached	parataxis
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 Don	case
33	Don	Don	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 sent	obl
34	Giovanni	Giovanni	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Don	flat
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 wished	punct
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 wished	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 wished	nsubj
38	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 sent	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 borrow	mark
40	borrow	borrow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 wished	xcomp
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 sum	det
42	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 sum	amod
43	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 borrow	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past		the ears of the king		by the fame of Don's riches	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme
2	is	past	Don		need	of money; always property	tree rules
3	send	past	Don			for Don	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	wish	past	Don				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	borrow not said to happen	to-infinitive	Don not said here	a large sum			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=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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