The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 73

He wished to speak to them, but soon discovered that they spoke an utterly unknown language, and did not seem to understand a word he said.

Who acts: Prince, gates · What happens: wish, speak, discover, not seem, understand, say · To what, where: gates, unknown language, word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, gates), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wished	nsubj
2	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 speak	mark
4	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wished	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 speak	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 discovered	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 discovered	cc
9	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 discovered	advmod
10	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wished	parataxis
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 spoke	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 spoke	nsubj
13	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 discovered	ccomp
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 language	det
15	utterly	utterly	ADV	_	16 unknown	advmod
16	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 language	amod
17	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spoke	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 seem	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 seem	cc
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 seem	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 seem	advmod
22	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 wished	parataxis
23	to	to	PART	_	24 understand	mark
24	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 seem	xcomp
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 word	det
26	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 understand	obj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 said	nsubj
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 word	acl:relcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	wish	past	Prince				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	speak speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	Prince not said here		gates = gate		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-Agent
3	discover	past				soon property	vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	speak speech: other	past	gates = gate	a unknown language			tree rules
5	not seem	past · do-support					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	understand	to-infinitive		a word			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
7	say speech: assert	past	Prince	a word not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

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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