The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 10

This state of things went on for three years before the king found any means of sending news of himself to his dear queen, but at last he contrived to send this letter: ‘Sell all our castles and palaces, and put all our treasures in pawn and come and deliver me out of this horrible prison.’

Who acts: state, king, any, last, our · What happens: go on, find, mean, send, contrive, sell · To what, where: news, dear queen, last, letter, castles, treasures · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (state, king, any, last), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 state	det
2	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 things	case
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 state	nmod
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	5 went	compound:prt
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 years	case
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 went	obl
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 found	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 found	nsubj
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	advcl
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 means	nsubj
15	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 found	ccomp
16	of	of	SCONJ	_	17 sending	mark
17	sending	send	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 means	ccomp
18	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sending	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 himself	case
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 news	nmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 queen	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 queen	nmod:poss
23	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 queen	amod
24	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sending	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 contrived	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 contrived	cc
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 last	case
28	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 contrived	obl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 contrived	nsubj
30	contrived	contrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 send	mark
32	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 contrived	xcomp
33	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 letter	det
34	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 send	obj
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	37 Sell	punct
36	‘	'	PUNCT	_	37 Sell	punct
37	Sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 contrived	ccomp
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 castles	det:predet
39	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 castles	nmod:poss
40	castles	castle	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 Sell	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 palaces	cc
42	palaces	palace	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 castles	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 put	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 put	cc
45	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	37 Sell	parataxis
46	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	48 treasures	det:predet
47	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 treasures	nmod:poss
48	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 put	obj
49	in	in	ADP	_	50 pawn	case
50	pawn	pawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 put	obl
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 come	cc
52	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	45 put	conj
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 deliver	cc
54	deliver	deliver	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	45 put	conj
55	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	54 deliver	obj
56	out	out	ADP	_	60 prison	case
57	of	of	ADP	_	60 prison	case
58	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	60 prison	det
59	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 prison	amod
60	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 deliver	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
62	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	go on	past	this state of things				year	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past	the king					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	mean	present	any					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	send	gerund		news of state	state's dear queen			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent news=Theme to queen=Destination
5	contrive	past	last			last		tree rules
6	send	to-infinitive	last not said here	this letter				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme
7	sell	infinitive	last not said here	our castles and palaces				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme
8	put	infinitive		our treasures		pawn		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme in pawn=Destination
9	come	infinitive						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	deliver	infinitive		me		this horrible prison		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme out prison=Initial_Location
11	treasure		our					nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent

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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