The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 31

They had much to tell him, but after a while he checked their merry talk and said:

Who acts: children, king · What happens: have, tell, check, say, talk · To what, where: king, merry talk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	much	much	ADV	_	2 had	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 tell	mark
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 checked	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 checked	cc
9	after	after	ADP	_	11 while	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 while	det
11	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 checked	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 checked	nsubj
13	checked	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 talk	nmod:poss
15	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 talk	amod
16	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 checked	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	have	past	children = child				tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	children = child not said here		king		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	check	past	king	children's merry talk		while	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	children = child not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	talk		children = child				nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=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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