The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 15

At length he remembered having heard some stories of a kingdom in the Kungla country, where musicians of all sorts were welcomed and highly paid; but where it was, or how it was reached, he could not recollect, however hard he thought.

Who acts: Tiidu · What happens: remember, have, hear, welcome, pay, reach · To what, where: length, stories, musicians, country

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiidu), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remembered	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 remembered	nsubj
4	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 remembered	xcomp
6	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 having	xcomp
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 stories	det
8	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 heard	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 kingdom	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 kingdom	det
11	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stories	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 country	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 country	det
14	Kungla	Kungla	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 country	compound
15	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kingdom	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 welcomed	punct
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 welcomed	advmod
18	musicians	musician	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 welcomed	nsubj:pass
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 sorts	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 sorts	det
21	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 musicians	nmod
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 welcomed	aux:pass
23	welcomed	welcome	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 country	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 paid	cc
25	highly	highly	ADV	_	26 paid	advmod
26	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 welcomed	conj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 recollect	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 recollect	cc
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	37 reached	advmod
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 reached	nsubj:pass
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 reached	aux:pass
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 reached	punct
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 reached	cc
34	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	37 reached	advmod
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 reached	nsubj:pass
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 reached	aux:pass
37	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 recollect	advcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 reached	punct
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 recollect	nsubj
40	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 recollect	aux
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 recollect	advmod
42	recollect	recollect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 remembered	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 thought	punct
44	however	however	ADV	_	45 hard	advmod
45	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	47 thought	advmod
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 thought	nsubj
47	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 remembered	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	remember	past	Tiidu		length		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	gerund	Tiidu not said here				tree rules
3	hear	participle	Tiidu not said here	some stories of a kingdom in the Kungla country			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
4	welcome	past · passive		musicians of all sorts			vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	pay	participle				highly property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	reach	past · passive		country			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme
7	not recollect	could	Tiidu				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
8	think speech: other	past	Tiidu			hard property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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