The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 57

At length they reached an inn, and the king’s son exclaimed, “I am very hungry; let us go in and get something to eat.”

Who acts: king, son, us · What happens: reach, exclaim, be, let, go in, get · To what, where: inn, length, us, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, son, us), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reached	nsubj
4	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 inn	det
6	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 exclaimed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 exclaimed	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 son	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 king	case
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 exclaimed	nsubj
13	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reached	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hungry	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 hungry	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 hungry	nsubj
17	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 hungry	cop
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 hungry	advmod
19	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 exclaimed	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 let	punct
21	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 reached	parataxis
22	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 let	obj
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 let	xcomp
24	in	in	ADV	_	23 go	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 get	cc
26	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 let	conj
27	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 get	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 eat	mark
29	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 something	acl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 let	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	king	a inn	length		tree rules
2	exclaim speech: express	past	the king's son				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	the king's son = son			hungry property	tree rules
4	let in a quote	infinitive		us			tree rules
5	go in in a quote	infinitive	us not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	get in a quote	infinitive		something			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
7	eat in a quote	to-infinitive		something not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «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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