Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 2

One day King Wil-liam seemed to be thinking of something that made him feel very sad; and the wise men who were about him asked him what was the matter.

Who acts: King liam, liam, wise men · What happens: seem, think, make, feel, ask, be · To what, where: liam, matter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Sons of William the Conqueror.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King liam, liam, wise men), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seemed	obl:unmarked
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 liam	compound
4	Wil	Wil	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 King	flat
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 King	punct
6	liam	liam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seemed	nsubj
7	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	10 thinking	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 thinking	aux
10	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 seemed	xcomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 something	case
12	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 thinking	obl
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 made	nsubj
14	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 something	acl:relcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 made	obj
16	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 made	xcomp
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 sad	advmod
18	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 feel	xcomp
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 asked	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 asked	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 men	det
22	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 men	amod
23	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 asked	nsubj
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 were	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 men	acl:relcl
26	about	about	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 were	obl
28	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seemed	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 asked	iobj
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 matter	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 matter	cop
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 matter	det
33	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 asked	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	King liam			day		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive · progressive	King liam not said here				of something	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	past		liam				tree rules
4	feel	infinitive	liam not said here				sad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	ask speech: ask	past	the wise men		liam			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6	is a	past		the matter				tree rules

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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