The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 108

When this was done he called out to the guards and said that he had considered the matter but after all he could not make up his mind to say what the king wished.

Who acts: shepherd, king · What happens: do, call out, say, consider, not make up, wish · To what, where: this, guards, matter, mind · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 done	advmod
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 done	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux:pass
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 called	advcl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 called	nsubj
6	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 called	compound:prt
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 guards	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 guards	det
10	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 called	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 called	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 considered	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 considered	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 considered	aux
16	considered	consider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 said	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 matter	det
18	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 considered	xcomp
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 make	cc
20	after	after	ADP	_	21 all	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 make	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 make	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 make	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 make	advmod
25	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 considered	conj
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 make	compound:prt
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 mind	nmod:poss
28	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 make	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 say	mark
30	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 mind	acl
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	34 wished	obj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 king	det
33	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wished	nsubj
34	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 say	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	do	past · passive		this			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	call out speech: assert	past	shepherd		the guards		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to guard=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past	shepherd not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	consider	past · perfect	shepherd	the matter			vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
5	not make up	could	shepherd	shepherd's mind		after all	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
6	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	shepherd not said here	shepherd's mind not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	wish	past	the king				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
8	mind		shepherd				nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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