The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 110

The king was much pleased with the trades and talk of the six brothers, and said: “Thank you, good people; your father did well to teach you all these things.

Who acts: king, father, six brothers · What happens: be, say, thank, do, teach, talk · To what, where: good people, you, things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, father, six brothers), 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 pleased	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pleased	cop
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 pleased	advmod
5	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 trades	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 trades	det
8	trades	trade	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pleased	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 talk	cc
10	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trades	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 brothers	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 brothers	det
13	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 brothers	nummod
14	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 talk	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pleased	conj
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 Thank	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 Thank	punct
20	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 said	ccomp
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 Thank	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 people	punct
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 people	amod
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 Thank	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 did	punct
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 father	nmod:poss
27	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 did	nsubj
28	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pleased	parataxis
29	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 did	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 teach	mark
31	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 did	advcl
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 teach	iobj
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 things	det:predet
34	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	35 things	det
35	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 teach	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the king			with the trades and talk of the six brothers; pleased property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the king not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	thank speech: thank in a quote	present		good people	you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	do in a quote	past	your father			well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	teach speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive	your father not said here	all things	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient thing=Topic
6	talk		the six brothers				nom talk «communication intransitive»: of=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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