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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 55

When he came into the outward court of the fairy’s palace, without dismounting himself, he sent to tell her he wanted to speak with her.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: come, dismount, send, tell, want, speak · To what, where: outward court, Prince, gate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

advmodnsubjadvclcasedetamodoblcasedetnmod:posscasenmodpunctmarkadvclobjpunctnsubjmarkxcompiobjnsubjccompmarkxcompcaseoblpunctrootWhenADVhePRONcameVERBintoADPtheDEToutwardADJcourtNOUNofADPtheDETfairyNOUN’sPARTpalaceNOUN,PUNCTwithoutSCONJdismountingVERBhimselfPRON,PUNCThePRONsentVERBtoPARTtellVERBherPRONhePRONwantedVERBtoPARTspeakVERBwithADPherPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int3 cameadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 camensubj
3camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 sentadvcl
4intointoADP_7 courtcase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 courtdet
6outwardoutwardADJDegree=Pos7 courtamod
7courtcourtNOUNNumber=Sing3 cameobl
8ofofADP_12 palacecase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 fairydet
10fairyfairyNOUNNumber=Sing12 palacenmod:poss
11’s'sPART_10 fairycase
12palacepalaceNOUNNumber=Sing7 courtnmod
13,,PUNCT_15 dismountingpunct
14withoutwithoutSCONJ_15 dismountingmark
15dismountingdismountVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part3 cameadvcl
16himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes15 dismountingobj
17,,PUNCT_3 camepunct
18hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 sentnsubj
19sentsendVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
20totoPART_21 tellmark
21telltellVERBVerbForm=Inf19 sentxcomp
22hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 telliobj
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 wantednsubj
24wantedwantVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 tellccomp
25totoPART_26 speakmark
26speakspeakVERBVerbForm=Inf24 wantedxcomp
27withwithADP_28 hercase
28hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 speakobl
29..PUNCT_19 sentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1comepastPrincethe outward court of the fairy's palacevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into court=Initial_Location
2dismountgerundPrince not said herePrincevn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
3sendpastPrincetree rules
4tell speech: assertto-infinitivePrince not said heregatevn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5wantpastPrincevn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6speak speech: other not said to happento-infinitivePrince not said herewith gatevn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with she=Co-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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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