The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 79

He wrung his hands and declared that the king would be the ruin of him, when Maria suddenly entered.

Who acts: king, Maria · What happens: wring, declare, be, enter · To what, where: hands, ruin · 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), 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	2 wrung	nsubj
2	wrung	wring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hands	nmod:poss
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wrung	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 declared	cc
6	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wrung	conj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 ruin	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ruin	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 ruin	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 ruin	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ruin	det
13	ruin	ruin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 declared	ccomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ruin	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 entered	punct
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 entered	advmod
18	Maria	Maria	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 entered	nsubj
19	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	20 entered	advmod
20	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 ruin	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wrung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wring	past	king	king's hands		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	declare speech: other	past	king not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is a	would	the king	the ruin	of man	tree rules
4	enter	past	Maria		suddenly property	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «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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