The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 43

The prince received this command as silently as he had received the rest, but no sooner was he in his room than he called for the dove, who said: ‘Attend to me.

Who acts: prince, dove · What happens: receive, be, call, say, attend · To what, where: command, rest, room, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, dove), 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 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 received	nsubj
3	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 command	det
5	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 received	obj
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 silently	advmod
7	silently	silently	ADV	_	3 received	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 received	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 received	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 received	aux
11	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 received	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rest	det
13	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 received	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 room	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 room	cc
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 sooner	det
17	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 room	advmod
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 room	cop
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 room	nsubj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 room	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 room	nmod:poss
22	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 received	obl
23	than	than	SCONJ	_	25 called	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 called	nsubj
25	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 room	acl
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 dove	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 dove	det
28	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 called	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 said	nsubj
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 dove	acl:relcl
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 Attend	punct
33	‘	'	PUNCT	_	34 Attend	punct
34	Attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 said	ccomp
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 me	case
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 Attend	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	receive	past	the prince	this command			silently property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme
2	receive	past · perfect	prince	the rest				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme
3	is	past	prince			prince's room	soon property	tree rules
4	call	past	prince	prince's room not said here			for the dove	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent room=Theme for dove=Beneficiary
5	say speech: assert	past	the dove					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	attend	infinitive			me			vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to i=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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