The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 22

Then the king saw that all his efforts were useless, and that he might as well give in, so he said:

Who acts: king, efforts · What happens: see, be, give in, say · 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, efforts), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 useless	mark
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 efforts	det:predet
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 efforts	nmod:poss
8	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 useless	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 useless	cop
10	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 saw	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 give	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 give	cc
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 give	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 give	nsubj
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 give	aux
16	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	18 give	cc
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 as	fixed
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 saw	conj
19	in	in	ADV	_	18 give	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	23 said	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	nsubj
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	parataxis
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the king	then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	king's efforts		useless property	tree rules
3	give in	might	king			vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	king			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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