The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 74

He was furious at this new trick which he felt had been played on him by Maria, and was still looking at them, wondering how he should pay her out, when he was told that the merchant, Maria’s father, had finished the business on which he had been sent and returned home.

Who acts: king, new trick, Maria · What happens: be, feel, play, look, wonder, pay out · To what, where: new trick, Maria, king, merchant, business · 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, new trick, Maria), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 furious	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 furious	cop
3	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 trick	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 trick	det
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trick	amod
7	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 furious	obl
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 felt	nsubj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 felt	nsubj
10	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 trick	acl:relcl
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 played	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 played	aux:pass
13	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 felt	xcomp
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 played	obl
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 Maria	case
17	Maria	Maria	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 played	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 looking	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 looking	cc
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 looking	aux
21	still	still	ADV	_	22 looking	advmod
22	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 felt	advcl
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 looking	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wondering	punct
26	wondering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 looking	conj
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	30 pay	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 pay	nsubj
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 pay	aux
30	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 wondering	ccomp
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 pay	obj
32	out	out	ADP	_	30 pay	compound:prt
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 told	punct
34	when	when	SCONJ	_	37 told	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 told	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 told	aux:pass
37	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 furious	parataxis
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 finished	mark
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 merchant	det
40	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 finished	nsubj:pass
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 father	punct
42	Maria	Maria	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 father	nmod:poss
43	’s	's	PART	_	42 Maria	case
44	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 merchant	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 merchant	punct
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 finished	aux
47	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 told	ccomp
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 business	det
49	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 finished	obj
50	on	on	ADP	_	51 which	case
51	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 sent	obl
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 sent	nsubj
53	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 sent	aux
54	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	55 sent	aux:pass
55	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 business	acl:relcl
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 returned	cc
57	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	55 sent	conj
58	home	home	ADV	_	57 returned	advmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 furious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	king		this new trick		furious property	tree rules
2	feel	past	this new trick					vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	play	past · perfect · passive	Maria				on king	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	look	past · progressive	this new trick not said here			still	at cries = cry	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
5	wonder speech: ask	gerund	this new trick not said here					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	pay out	should	king	Maria				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Asset
7	tell speech: assert	past · passive		king				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
8	finish	past · perfect · passive		the merchant and Maria's father				tree rules
9	send	past · perfect · passive		king	the business			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
10	return	participle					home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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