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The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 1

Meanwhile the poor friend had been unable to get through his task in the short time appointed by the king, and when at last he returned the king said to him,

Who acts: poor friend, last, friend · What happens: be, get, appoint, return, say, task · To what, where: task, short time, king, friend · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor friend, last, friend), 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

advmoddetamodnsubjauxcopmarkxcompcasenmod:possoblcasedetamodoblaclcasedetoblpunctccadvmodcasensubjnsubjacl:relcldetobjconjcaseoblpunctrootMeanwhileADVtheDETpoorADJfriendNOUNhadAUXbeenAUXunableADJtoPARTgetVERBthroughADPhisPRONtaskNOUNinADPtheDETshortADJtimeNOUNappointedVERBbyADPtheDETkingNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwhenADVatADPlastNOUNhePRONreturnedVERBtheDETkingNOUNsaidVERBtoADPhimPRON,PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1MeanwhilemeanwhileADV_7 unableadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 frienddet
3poorpoorADJDegree=Pos4 friendamod
4friendfriendNOUNNumber=Sing7 unablensubj
5hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 unableaux
6beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part7 unablecop
7unableunableADJDegree=Posrootroot
8totoPART_9 getmark
9getgetVERBVerbForm=Inf7 unablexcomp
10throughthroughADP_12 taskcase
11hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs12 tasknmod:poss
12tasktaskNOUNNumber=Sing9 getobl
13ininADP_16 timecase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 timedet
15shortshortADJDegree=Pos16 timeamod
16timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing9 getobl
17appointedappointVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass16 timeacl
18bybyADP_20 kingcase
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 kingdet
20kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing17 appointedobl
21,,PUNCT_30 saidpunct
22andandCCONJ_30 saidcc
23whenwhenADVPronType=Int30 saidadvmod
24atatADP_25 lastcase
25lastlastNOUNNumber=Sing30 saidnsubj
26hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 returnednsubj
27returnedreturnVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 lastacl:relcl
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 kingdet
29kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing27 returnedobj
30saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 unableconj
31totoADP_32 himcase
32himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 saidobl
33,,PUNCT_7 unablepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispast · perfectthe poor friendmeanwhile, unable propertytree rules
2getto-infinitivethe poor friend not said herefriend's tasktimevn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through task=Destination
3appointparticiplethe short time not said hereby the kingvn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4returnpastlastthe kingvn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme
5say speech: assertpastlastfriendvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
6taskfriendnom task «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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