The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 96

But when the prince entered with the red-hot shovel his master only said, ‘I am very ill to-day, and too weak even to touch your hand.

Who acts: prince, I · What happens: enter, say, be, touch · To what, where: master, hand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, 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 (prince, I), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 entered	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 entered	nsubj
5	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	advcl
6	with	with	ADP	_	11 shovel	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shovel	det
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hot	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 red	punct
10	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shovel	amod
11	shovel	shovel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 entered	obl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 master	nmod:poss
13	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 entered	obj
14	only	only	ADV	_	15 said	advmod
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ill	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 ill	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 ill	nsubj
19	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 ill	cop
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 ill	advmod
21	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 said	ccomp
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 day	case
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 to	punct
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ill	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 weak	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 weak	cc
27	too	too	ADV	_	28 weak	advmod
28	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 said	parataxis
29	even	even	ADV	_	31 touch	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 touch	mark
31	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 weak	advcl
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 hand	nmod:poss
33	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 touch	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	enter	past	the prince	prince's master		with the hot shovel	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme master=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	I		day	ill property	tree rules
4	touch	to-infinitive		your hand			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hand=Co-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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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