The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 47
To the other Princess he despatched a messenger to beg her to return to her own kingdom with all speed.
Who acts: King · What happens: despatch, beg, return · To what, where: messenger, Princess
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 Princess | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Princess | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Princess | amod |
| 4 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 despatched | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 despatched | nsubj |
| 6 | despatched | despatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 messenger | det |
| 8 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 despatched | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 beg | mark |
| 10 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 despatched | advcl |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 beg | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 return | mark |
| 13 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 beg | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 kingdom | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 kingdom | amod |
| 17 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 return | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 speed | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 speed | det |
| 20 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kingdom | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 despatched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | despatch | past | King | a messenger | to the other Princess | tree rules | |||
| 2 | beg speech: request | to-infinitive | King not said here | Princess | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | return not said to happen | to-infinitive | King not said here | to Princess's own kingdom with all speed result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to kingdom=Result |
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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