The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 13

The king returned home at night, but his wife told him nothing of what had happened, and the next morning she again begged the prince to go out hunting with his father.

Who acts: king, wife · What happens: return, tell, happen, beg, go out, hunt · To what, where: nothing, king, prince · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, wife), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 returned	nsubj
3	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 returned	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 returned	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	nsubj
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 returned	parataxis
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 told	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 what	case
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 nothing	nmod
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 happened	aux
17	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 what	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 begged	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 begged	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 morning	det
21	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 morning	amod
22	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 begged	obl:unmarked
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 begged	nsubj
24	again	again	ADV	_	25 begged	advmod
25	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 prince	det
27	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 begged	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 go	mark
29	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 begged	advcl
30	out	out	ADV	_	29 go	advmod
31	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 go	xcomp
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 father	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 father	nmod:poss
34	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hunting	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	the king			night	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	king's wife	nothing	king			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient nothing=Topic
3	happen	past · perfect						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	beg speech: request	past	wife		the prince	again; morning		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient
5	go out	to-infinitive	wife not said here				out property	tree rules
6	hunt	gerund	wife not said here				with king's father	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=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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