The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 60

When these were brought to the king he sent for the prince at once and asked if it had been he who had come to their rescue.

Who acts: king, room · What happens: bring, send, ask, come, rescue · To what, where: these, king · 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 (king, room), 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 brought	advmod
2	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 brought	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brought	aux:pass
4	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 king	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brought	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sent	nsubj
9	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brought	parataxis
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 prince	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 prince	det
12	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sent	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 once	case
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 sent	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 asked	cc
16	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sent	conj
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 been	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 been	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 been	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 come	aux:pass
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 come	nsubj
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 come	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 come	aux
24	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 asked	ccomp
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 rescue	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 rescue	nmod:poss
27	rescue	rescue	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 come	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	bring	past · passive		these	the king		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to king=Destination
2	send	past	king			for the prince	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	ask speech: ask	past	king not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come	participle · perfect · passive		king		to room's rescue	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
5	rescue		room				nom rescue «act 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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