The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 5

He then entreated her pardon for his violence, and told her that he was about to carry her to a great kingdom over which he ruled, and where he desired she should rule with him, adding many tender and consoling expressions.

Who acts: eagle, Princess · What happens: entreat, tell, be, carry, rule, desire · To what, where: pardon, Princess, great kingdom, many tender, expressions · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (eagle, Princess), 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	3 entreated	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 entreated	advmod
3	entreated	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 pardon	nmod:poss
5	pardon	pardon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 entreated	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 violence	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 violence	nmod:poss
8	violence	violence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 entreated	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 entreated	parataxis
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 about	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 about	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 about	cop
16	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 told	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 carry	mark
18	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 about	xcomp
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 carry	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 kingdom	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 kingdom	det
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 kingdom	amod
23	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 carry	obl
24	over	over	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 ruled	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 ruled	nsubj
27	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 kingdom	acl:relcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 desired	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 desired	cc
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 desired	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 desired	nsubj
32	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	conj
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 rule	nsubj
34	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 rule	aux
35	rule	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 desired	xcomp
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 rule	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 adding	punct
39	adding	add	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 rule	advcl
40	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 tender	amod
41	tender	tender	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 adding	obj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 consoling	cc
43	consoling	console	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 adding	conj
44	expressions	expression	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 consoling	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 entreated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	entreat	past	eagle	Princess's pardon			then	for eagle's violence	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	past			Princess				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	is	past	eagle					about property	tree rules
4	carry	to-infinitive	eagle not said here	Princess		a great kingdom			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to kingdom=Destination
5	rule	past	eagle			a great kingdom			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	desire	past	eagle						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	rule not said to happen	should	Princess					with eagle	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	add speech: assert	gerund	Princess not said here	many tender					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tender=Patient
9	console	gerund	Princess not said here	expressions					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus expression=Experiencer
10	pardon		Princess						nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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