The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 57

At first the king would not believe their story, but as they persisted it was quite true, he said that he would go and watch the stream that night himself.

Who acts: king, watchmen, story · What happens: not believe, persist, be, say, go, watch · To what, where: story, stream · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, watchmen, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 believe	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 believe	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 believe	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 believe	advmod
7	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 story	nmod:poss
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 believe	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 persisted	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 persisted	nsubj
14	persisted	persist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 said	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 true	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 true	cop
17	quite	quite	ADV	_	18 true	advmod
18	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 persisted	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 persisted	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 believe	parataxis
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 go	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 go	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 go	aux
25	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	ccomp
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 watch	cc
27	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 go	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 stream	det
29	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 watch	obj
30	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 night	det
31	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 watch	obl:unmarked
32	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	31 night	nmod:unmarked
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 believe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not believe	would	the king	watchmen's story			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
2	persist	past	watchmen = watchman				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	story			true property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	king				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	go	would	king				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	watch	infinitive	king not said here	the stream	night		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stream=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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