The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 45

The king frowned, and was about to say something sharp, when the Court Fool pushed his way to the front and said: “Dear me, what are all you clever people so puzzled about?

Who acts: king · What happens: frown, be, say, push · To what, where: king, something, way, front, clever people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	17 pushed	nsubj
3	frowned	frown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 king	acl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 about	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 about	cc
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 about	cop
7	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 king	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 say	mark
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 about	xcomp
10	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 say	obj
11	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 something	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pushed	punct
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 pushed	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Fool	det
15	Court	Court	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Fool	compound
16	Fool	Fool	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 pushed	nsubj
17	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 way	nmod:poss
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pushed	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 front	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 front	det
22	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pushed	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 pushed	conj
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 Dear	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 Dear	punct
27	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 said	parataxis
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 Dear	nsubj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 people	punct
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	35 people	nsubj
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 people	cop
32	all	all	ADV	_	35 people	advmod
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 people	nsubj
34	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 people	amod
35	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 Dear	conj
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 puzzled	advmod
37	puzzled	puzzled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 said	ccomp
38	about	about	ADP	_	37 puzzled	obl
39	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 pushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	frown	participle		the king not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the king not said here			about property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the king not said here	something			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic
4	push	past	the king	Fool's way	the front		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent way=Theme to front=Trajectory
5	say speech: ask	past	the king not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	is a in a quote	present		clever people		all property	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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