The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 32

The emperor was blind altogether now, and Florea and Costan had besought him to give the government of the kingdom into their hands; but he would not, saying that he did not mean to resign the government till he had washed his eyes from the well of the Fairy of the Dawn.

Who acts: emperor, Costan · What happens: be, beseech, give, say, not mean, resign · To what, where: Florea, government, hands, eyes, well · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emperor, Costan), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 emperor	det
2	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blind	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 blind	cop
4	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	6 now	advmod
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 blind	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 besought	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 besought	cc
9	Florea	Florea	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 besought	nsubj:pass
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Costan	cc
11	Costan	Costan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Florea	conj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 besought	aux
13	besought	beseech	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 blind	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 besought	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 give	mark
16	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 besought	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 government	det
18	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 give	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 kingdom	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 kingdom	det
21	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 government	nmod
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 hands	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 hands	nmod:poss
24	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 give	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 saying	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 saying	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 would	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 saying	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 would	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 saying	punct
31	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 blind	parataxis
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 mean	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 mean	nsubj
34	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 mean	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 mean	advmod
36	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 saying	advcl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 resign	mark
38	resign	resign	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 mean	xcomp
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 government	det
40	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 resign	obj
41	till	till	SCONJ	_	44 washed	mark
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 washed	nsubj
43	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 washed	aux
44	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 resign	advcl
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 eyes	nmod:poss
46	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 washed	obj
47	from	from	ADP	_	49 well	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 well	det
49	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 washed	obl
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 Fairy	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 Fairy	det
52	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 well	nmod
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 Dawn	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 Dawn	det
55	Dawn	Dawn	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 Fairy	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 blind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the emperor			now	blind property	tree rules
2	beseech	past · perfect · passive		Florea and Costan				tree rules
3	give	to-infinitive		the government of the kingdom	Florea's hands			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent government=Theme
4	say speech: assert	would						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	not mean	past · do-support	Costan					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	resign not said to happen	to-infinitive	Costan not said here	the government				vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent government=Theme
7	wash	past · perfect	Costan	Costan's eyes	the well of the Fairy of the Dawn			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent eye=Theme from well=Source

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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