The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 64

When he heard that, the emperor desired the page to be brought before him, and, as soon as the princess obeyed his summons, he said to her abruptly:

Who acts: two, emperor, princess · What happens: hear, desire, bring, obey, say · To what, where: that, page, summons, princess · 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 (two, emperor, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 heard	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 desired	advcl
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 heard	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 emperor	det
7	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 desired	nsubj
8	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 page	det
10	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 desired	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	13 brought	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 brought	aux:pass
13	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 page	acl
14	before	before	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 brought	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 obeyed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 obeyed	cc
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 and	punct
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 soon	advmod
20	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 obeyed	advmod
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 obeyed	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 princess	det
23	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 obeyed	nsubj
24	obeyed	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 desired	conj
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 summons	nmod:poss
26	summons	summon	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 obeyed	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 said	nsubj
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 desired	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 her	case
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 said	obl
32	abruptly	abruptly	ADV	_	29 said	advmod
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 desired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	two	that				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
2	desire	past	the emperor	the page				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot page=Theme
3	bring	to-infinitive · passive	the emperor not said here	the page not said here		before two		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: before he=Destination
4	obey	past	the princess	two's summons			soon property	vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent summon=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	two		princess		abruptly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient

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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