The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 130
Meanwhile the King was asking the Enchanter to what he was indebted for the honour of this visit, and on his replying that he would not say until the Queen was also present, messenger after messenger was dispatched to her to beg her immediate attendance.
Who acts: King, enchanter, replying, Queen · What happens: ask, indebt, reply, not say, be, dispatch · To what, where: Enchanter, Queen, immediate attendance, visit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, enchanter, replying, Queen), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 5 asking | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 asking | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 asking | aux |
| 5 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Enchanter | det |
| 7 | Enchanter | Enchanter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 asking | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 what | case |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 asking | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 indebted | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 indebted | aux:pass |
| 12 | indebted | indebt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 what | acl:relcl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 honour | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 honour | det |
| 15 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 indebted | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 visit | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 visit | det |
| 18 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 honour | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 replying | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 replying | cc |
| 21 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 23 replying | mark |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 replying | nsubj |
| 23 | replying | reply | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 present | csubj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 say | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 say | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 say | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 say | advmod |
| 28 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 replying | advcl |
| 29 | until | until | ADP | _ | 31 Queen | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Queen | det |
| 31 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 say | obl |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 present | cop |
| 33 | also | also | ADV | _ | 34 present | advmod |
| 34 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 dispatched | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 messenger | punct |
| 36 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 present | conj |
| 37 | after | after | ADP | _ | 38 messenger | case |
| 38 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 present | obl |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 dispatched | aux:pass |
| 40 | dispatched | dispatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 asking | ccomp |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 her | case |
| 42 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 dispatched | obl |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 beg | mark |
| 44 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 dispatched | advcl |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 attendance | nmod:poss |
| 46 | immediate | immediate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 attendance | amod |
| 47 | attendance | attendance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 beg | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 asking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past · progressive | the King | the Enchanter | meanwhile property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent enchanter=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | indebt | past · passive | enchanter | for the honour of this visit | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | gerund | enchanter | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not say speech: assert | would | enchanter | until the Queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is | past | replying | after messenger | present property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | dispatch | past · passive | Queen | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to she=Destination | |||||
| 7 | beg speech: request | to-infinitive | Queen's immediate attendance | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent attendance=Recipient | |||||
| 8 | honour | this visit | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 9 | attend | Queen | nom attendance «act 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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