The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 133

When the royal party entered he told the guards that it was he who had delivered the Princess, and wished to speak to the King.

Who acts: royal party, party · What happens: enter, tell, deliver, wish, speak · To what, where: guards, crowd · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (royal party, party), 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	5 entered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 party	det
3	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 party	amod
4	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 entered	nsubj
5	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	advcl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	nsubj
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 guards	det
9	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 told	iobj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 delivered	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 delivered	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 delivered	aux:pass
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 delivered	nsubj:pass
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 delivered	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 delivered	aux
16	delivered	deliver	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 told	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Princess	det
18	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 delivered	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wished	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wished	cc
21	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 speak	mark
23	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 wished	xcomp
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 King	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 King	det
26	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 speak	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	enter	past	the royal party				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	party		the guards		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent guard=Recipient clause=Topic
3	deliver	past · perfect · passive		crowd			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary princess=Patient
4	wish	past	party not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	speak speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	party not said here			to the King	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to king=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 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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