The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 104

While they were eating, the bald-headed king asked the prince how he had happened to wander so far, and the young man told him all about it, and how he was seeking the Land of Immortality.

Who acts: supper, headed king, king, young man, man · What happens: eat, ask, happen, wander, tell, seek · To what, where: prince, Land · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (supper, headed king, king, young man), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 eating	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eating	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eating	aux
4	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 asked	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 eating	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
7	bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 headed	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 bald	punct
9	headed	headed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 king	amod
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 asked	nsubj
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 prince	det
13	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 asked	obj
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 happened	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 happened	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 happened	aux
17	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 asked	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 wander	mark
19	wander	wander	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 happened	xcomp
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 far	advmod
21	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 wander	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 told	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 told	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 man	det
25	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 told	nsubj
27	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 asked	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 told	iobj
29	all	all	ADV	_	31 it	advmod
30	about	about	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 told	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 seeking	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 seeking	cc
34	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	37 seeking	advmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 seeking	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 seeking	aux
37	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 told	advcl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Land	det
39	Land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 seeking	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 Immortality	case
41	Immortality	immortality	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 Land	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	eat	past · progressive	supper				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ask speech: ask	past	the headed king		the prince		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient clause=Topic
3	happen	past · perfect	king				tree rules
4	wander	to-infinitive	king not said here			far property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past	the young man		Prince	about table	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about it=Topic
6	seek	past · progressive	man	the Land of Immortality			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=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: «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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