The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 20

After a time the ladies begged the Prince to relate his adventures, and he told them of all his sufferings in the desert when he was first transformed.

Who acts: ladies, Prince · What happens: beg, relate, tell, transform, adventure, suffer · To what, where: Prince, adventures, desert · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (ladies, Prince), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 begged	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ladies	det
5	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 begged	nsubj
6	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Prince	det
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 begged	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 relate	mark
10	relate	relate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 begged	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 adventures	nmod:poss
12	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 relate	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	nsubj
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 begged	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 sufferings	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 sufferings	det:predet
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 sufferings	nmod:poss
21	sufferings	suffering	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 told	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 desert	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 desert	det
24	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	obl
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 transformed	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 transformed	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 transformed	aux:pass
28	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 transformed	advmod
29	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 told	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	the ladies		the Prince		time		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient
2	relate	to-infinitive	the ladies not said here	Prince's adventures					vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	Prince		adventures = adventure	the desert		of Prince's sufferings	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	transform	past · passive		Prince				first property	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	adventure		Prince						nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent
6	suffer		Prince						nom suffering «state intransitive»: 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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