Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Ungrateful Soldier., sentence 21
When the King of the Danes heard about this, he sent for the soldier and had him tell the story just as it was.
Who acts: King, story · What happens: hear, send, have, tell, be · To what, where: King, story · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Ungrateful Soldier.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, story), 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 | 7 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Danes | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Danes | det |
| 6 | Danes | Dane | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 King | nmod |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sent | advcl |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 this | case |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 heard | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sent | nsubj |
| 12 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 soldier | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 soldier | det |
| 15 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sent | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 had | cc |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sent | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 had | obj |
| 19 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 had | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 story | det |
| 21 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tell | obj |
| 22 | just | just | ADV | _ | 25 was | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 was | mark |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 was | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 tell | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the King of the Danes | about this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | send | past | King | for the soldier | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | have | past | King not said here | King | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | King not said here | the story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | be | past | story | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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