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The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 65

Time after time this happened, till the king grew mad with rage, and offered a large reward to anyone who could tell him how to capture his enemy.

Who acts: this, king · What happens: happen, grow, offer, tell, capture · To what, where: large reward, anyone, king, enemy · 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 (this, king), 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

obl:unmarkedcasenmodnsubjpunctmarkdetnsubjconjxcompcaseoblpunctccconjdetamodobjcaseoblnsubjauxacl:relcliobjadvmodmarkxcompnmod:possobjpunctrootTimeNOUNafterADPtimeNOUNthisPRONhappenedVERB,PUNCTtillSCONJtheDETkingNOUNgrewVERBmadADJwithADPrageNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJofferedVERBaDETlargeADJrewardNOUNtoADPanyonePRONwhoPRONcouldAUXtellVERBhimPRONhowADVtoPARTcaptureVERBhisPRONenemyNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TimetimeNOUNNumber=Sing5 happenedobl:unmarked
2afterafterADP_3 timecase
3timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing1 Timenmod
4thisthisPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem5 happenednsubj
5happenedhappenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6,,PUNCT_10 grewpunct
7tilltillSCONJ_10 grewmark
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 kingdet
9kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing10 grewnsubj
10grewgrowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 happenedconj
11madmadADJDegree=Pos10 grewxcomp
12withwithADP_13 ragecase
13ragerageNOUNNumber=Sing11 madobl
14,,PUNCT_16 offeredpunct
15andandCCONJ_16 offeredcc
16offeredofferVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 happenedconj
17aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art19 rewarddet
18largelargeADJDegree=Pos19 rewardamod
19rewardrewardNOUNNumber=Sing16 offeredobj
20totoADP_21 anyonecase
21anyoneanyonePRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind16 offeredobl
22whowhoPRONPronType=Rel24 tellnsubj
23couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin24 tellaux
24telltellVERBVerbForm=Inf21 anyoneacl:relcl
25himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 telliobj
26howhowADVPronType=Int28 captureadvmod
27totoPART_28 capturemark
28capturecaptureVERBVerbForm=Inf24 tellxcomp
29hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 enemynmod:poss
30enemyenemyNOUNNumber=Sing28 captureobj
31..PUNCT_5 happenedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1happenpastthistimevn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2growpastthe kingmad propertyvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3offerpastthis not said herea large rewardanyonevn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent reward=Theme to anyone=Goal
4tell speech: assertcouldkingvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5capture not said to happento-infinitiveking's enemyvn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=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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