The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 54

The messenger took back this answer, but a second time returned with the request that Don Giovanni would present them with his picture, so that they might know what sort of a person to expect.

Who acts: messenger, Don, ears · What happens: take back, return, present, know, expect, sort · To what, where: answer, request, sort, person

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 (messenger, Don, ears), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 messenger	det
2	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 answer	det
6	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 returned	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 returned	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 time	det
10	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 returned	obl:unmarked
12	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 took	parataxis
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 request	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 request	det
15	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 returned	obl
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 present	obj
17	Don	Don	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 present	nsubj
18	Giovanni	Giovanni	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Don	flat
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 present	aux
20	present	present	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 request	acl:relcl
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 present	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 picture	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 picture	nmod:poss
24	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 present	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 know	punct
26	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	30 know	mark
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 so	fixed
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 know	nsubj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 know	aux
30	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 returned	conj
31	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	32 sort	det
32	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 know	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 person	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 person	det
35	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sort	nmod
36	to	to	PART	_	37 expect	mark
37	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 person	acl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take back	past	the messenger	this answer			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme
2	return	participle			time	with the request	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	present	would	Don	the request		with messenger's picture	tree rules
4	know	might	ears = ear	what sort of a person			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus
5	expect	to-infinitive	ears = ear not said here				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	sort			a person			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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