The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 44

I am here on behalf of the Queen your mother, with the object of delivering your Highness; to prove which, behold this portrait which she gave me herself.’

Who acts: I, object, portrait · What happens: be, deliver, prove, give · To what, where: behalf, Highness, portrait, Princess, me

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, object, portrait), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 here	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 here	cop
3	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 behalf	case
5	behalf	behalf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 here	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Queen	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Queen	det
8	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 behalf	nmod
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mother	nmod:poss
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 here	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 object	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 object	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 object	det
14	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mother	appos
15	of	of	SCONJ	_	16 delivering	mark
16	delivering	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 object	acl
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 Highness	nmod:poss
18	Highness	highness	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 delivering	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 prove	punct
20	to	to	PART	_	21 prove	mark
21	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 here	conj
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 behold	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 which	punct
24	behold	behold	INTJ	_	21 prove	discourse
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 portrait	det
26	portrait	portrait	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 prove	obj
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 gave	nsubj
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 gave	nsubj
29	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 portrait	acl:relcl
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 gave	iobj
31	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 gave	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 here	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	I			behalf of the Queen	here property	tree rules
2	deliver	gerund	the object not said here	your Highness				vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent highness=Patient
3	prove	to-infinitive	I not said here	this portrait				vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portrait=Theme
4	give	past	this portrait	Princess	me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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