The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 25

He wanted to have a report, but Christian would give him none, so he took him straight up to the king, and announced for the first time that here was the sentinel who had stood guard in the church over-night.

Who acts: noise, Christian, first time, sentinel · What happens: want, have, give, take, announce, be · To what, where: report, none, noise, Christian, king, sentinel

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, Christian, first time, sentinel), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 have	mark
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 report	det
6	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 give	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 give	cc
9	Christian	Christian	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 give	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 give	aux
11	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 give	iobj
13	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	11 give	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 took	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 took	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 took	nsubj
17	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	parataxis
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 took	obj
19	straight	straight	ADV	_	20 up	advmod
20	up	up	ADV	_	17 took	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 king	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 king	det
23	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 announced	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 announced	cc
26	announced	announce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 took	conj
27	for	for	ADP	_	30 time	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 time	det
29	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	30 time	amod
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 announced	obl
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 sentinel	nsubj
32	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 sentinel	advmod
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 sentinel	cop
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 sentinel	det
35	sentinel	sentinel	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 time	acl:relcl
36	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 stood	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 stood	aux
38	stood	stand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 sentinel	acl:relcl
39	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 stood	obj
40	in	in	ADP	_	43 over-night	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 over-night	det
42	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 over-night	compound
43	over-night	over-night	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 stood	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	want	past	noise					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	noise not said here	a report				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent report=Patient
3	give	would	Christian	none	noise			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient none=Theme
4	take	past	noise	Christian	the king			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to king=Destination
5	announce speech: other	past	noise not said here				time	vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past	the first time	the sentinel		here		tree rules
7	stand	past · perfect	the sentinel	guard		the church over-night		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent guard=Theme in over-night=Destination

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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