The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 49

At last he spoke to the queen: ‘Dear wife, this man has done me a great service, and has, besides, behaved like a gentleman in not allowing me to send back the money.

Who acts: king, Dear wife · What happens: speak, do, have, behave, not allow, send back · To what, where: last, great service, me, money · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (king, Dear wife), 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	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoke	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spoke	nsubj
4	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 queen	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 queen	det
7	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoke	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 done	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 wife	punct
10	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wife	amod
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 done	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wife	punct
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 man	det
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 done	nsubj
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 done	aux
16	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 spoke	conj
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 done	iobj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 service	det
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 service	amod
20	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 done	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 has	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 has	cc
23	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 spoke	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 behaved	punct
25	besides	besides	INTJ	_	27 behaved	discourse
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 behaved	punct
27	behaved	behave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 has	xcomp
28	like	like	ADP	_	30 gentleman	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 gentleman	det
30	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 behaved	obl:agent
31	in	in	SCONJ	_	33 allowing	mark
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 allowing	advmod
33	allowing	allow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 behaved	advcl
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 allowing	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 send	mark
36	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 allowing	advcl
37	back	back	ADV	_	36 send	advmod
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 money	det
39	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 send	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	king			last	to the queen	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to queen=Co-Agent
2	do	present · perfect	Dear wife	a great service	me			tree rules
3	have	present	king not said here					tree rules
4	behave	participle	king not said here					vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
5	not allow	gerund	king not said here		me			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
6	send back	to-infinitive	king not said here	the money				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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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