The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 49

The emperor received her kindly, and declared himself fortunate at finding a vassal so brave and so charming, and begged the princess to remain in attendance on his person.

Who acts: emperor · What happens: receive, declare, find, beg, remain · To what, where: princess, Genii, vassal charming, attendance · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, 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 (emperor), 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	3 received	nsubj
3	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 received	obj
5	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	3 received	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 declared	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 declared	cc
8	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 received	parataxis
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 declared	obj
10	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 declared	xcomp
11	at	at	SCONJ	_	12 finding	mark
12	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 fortunate	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 charming	det
14	vassal	vassal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 charming	amod
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 brave	advmod
16	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 vassal	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 charming	cc
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 charming	advmod
19	charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 finding	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 begged	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 begged	cc
22	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 declared	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 princess	det
24	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 begged	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 remain	mark
26	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 begged	ccomp
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 attendance	case
28	attendance	attendance	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 remain	obl
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 person	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 person	nmod:poss
31	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 remain	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	receive	past	the emperor	princess			kindly property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	declare speech: other	past		Genii			fortunate property	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute
3	find	gerund		a vassal charming				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charming=Topic
4	beg speech: request	past			the princess			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient clause=Topic
5	remain not said to happen	to-infinitive				attendance	on Genii's person	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in attendance=Location

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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