More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 102

Now she says, "Have you not another son?" when the King began so to shiver and shake and knock his two knees together that he could scarcely stand upon his legs, and did not know what to say to her, he was so much frightened.

Who acts: other, you, King, Prince · What happens: say, have, begin, shiver, shake, knock · To what, where: son, two knees, legs, other, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, 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 (other, you, King, Prince), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 says	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Have	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Have	punct
6	Have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 Have	nsubj
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 son	advmod
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 son	det
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Have	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 son	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 son	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 began	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 King	det
15	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 began	nsubj
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Have	parataxis
17	so	so	ADV	_	19 shiver	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 shiver	mark
19	shiver	shiver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 began	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 shake	cc
21	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 shiver	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 knock	cc
23	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 shake	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 knees	nmod:poss
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 knees	nummod
26	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 knock	obj
27	together	together	ADV	_	23 knock	advmod
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 stand	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 stand	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 stand	aux
31	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	32 stand	advmod
32	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 knock	advcl
33	upon	upon	ADP	_	35 legs	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 legs	nmod:poss
35	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 stand	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 know	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 know	cc
38	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 know	aux
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 know	advmod
40	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
41	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	43 say	obj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 say	mark
43	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 know	ccomp
44	to	to	ADP	_	45 her	case
45	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 say	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 frightened	punct
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 frightened	nsubj:pass
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 frightened	aux:pass
49	so	so	ADV	_	50 much	advmod
50	much	much	ADV	_	51 frightened	advmod
51	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 know	parataxis
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	present	other				now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	present	you	another son					tree rules
3	begin	past	the King						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	shiver	to-infinitive	the King not said here						vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	shake	infinitive	the King not said here						vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	knock	infinitive	the King not said here	Prince's two knees				together property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent knee=Patient
7	stand	could	Prince			Prince's legs		scarcely property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon leg=Location
8	not know	past · do-support							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	say speech: assert	to-infinitive			other				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to she=Recipient
10	frighten	past · passive		Prince					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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