The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 52

The king was very angry at her for playing truant, but when she returned home the next day, she found the plants of her sisters withered away, because they had disobeyed their father.

Who acts: king, Maria, plants · What happens: be, play, return, find, wither away, disobey · To what, where: father · 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 (king, Maria, plants), 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	5 angry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 angry	advmod
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 angry	obl
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 playing	mark
9	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 angry	advcl
10	truant	truant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 playing	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 found	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 found	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 returned	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 returned	nsubj
15	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 found	advcl
16	home	home	ADV	_	15 returned	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 day	det
18	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 day	amod
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 returned	obl:unmarked
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 returned	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 found	nsubj
22	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 plants	det
24	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 withered	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 sisters	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 sisters	nmod:poss
27	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 plants	nmod
28	withered	wither	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 found	ccomp
29	away	away	ADV	_	28 withered	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 disobeyed	punct
31	because	because	SCONJ	_	34 disobeyed	mark
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 disobeyed	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 disobeyed	aux
34	disobeyed	disobey	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 withered	conj
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 father	nmod:poss
36	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 disobeyed	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the king			at Maria; angry property	tree rules
2	play	gerund	the king not said here			truant property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	return	past	Maria		day	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	find	past	Maria				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	wither away	past	the plants of Maria's sisters			away property	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	disobey	past · perfect	plants = plant	plants's father			tree rules

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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