Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar., sentence 27

He spoke, and told them what he had seen and heard in his dream; and when he had fin-ished, they all cheered loudly, and said that they would follow him and fight for him so long as they had strength.

Who acts: King, fin, soldiers · What happens: speak, tell, see, hear, have, ish · To what, where: soldiers, dream, fin, King, strength · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Alfred and the Beggar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, fin, soldiers), 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 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 told	cc
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spoke	conj
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 seen	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 seen	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 seen	aux
10	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 told	ccomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 heard	cc
12	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 seen	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 dream	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 dream	nmod:poss
15	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heard	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 had	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spoke	parataxis
21	fin	fin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obj
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 fin	punct
23	ished	ish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 had	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 cheered	punct
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 cheered	nsubj
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 cheered	advmod
27	cheered	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 had	conj
28	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	27 cheered	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 said	cc
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spoke	conj
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 follow	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 follow	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 follow	aux
35	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 said	ccomp
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 follow	obj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 fight	cc
38	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 follow	conj
39	for	for	ADP	_	40 him	case
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 fight	obl
41	so	so	ADV	_	42 long	advmod
42	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 fight	advmod
43	as	as	SCONJ	_	45 had	mark
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 had	nsubj
45	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 long	advcl
46	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 had	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	King					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	King not said here		soldiers = soldier			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	see	past · perfect	King					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
4	hear	participle	King not said here			King's dream		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
5	have	past	King	fin				tree rules
6	ish	participle	fin not said here					tree rules
7	cheer	past	soldiers = soldier				loudly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
8	say speech: assert	past	King not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	follow	would	soldiers = soldier	King				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
10	fight	infinitive	soldiers = soldier not said here				for King; long property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	have	past	soldiers = soldier	strength				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient
12	dream		King					nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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: «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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