The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 69

The king was very much frightened when he heard this, and though he took the canes and examined them closely, he could see no difference between them.

Who acts: king · What happens: frighten, hear, take, examine, see · To what, where: king, this, canes, difference

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. 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	6 frightened	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 frightened	aux:pass
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 frightened	advmod
6	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 heard	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heard	nsubj
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 frightened	advcl
10	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 heard	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 took	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 took	cc
13	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 took	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 took	nsubj
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 frightened	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 canes	det
17	canes	cane	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 took	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 examined	cc
19	examined	examine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 took	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 examined	obj
21	closely	closely	ADV	_	19 examined	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 see	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 see	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 see	aux
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 took	conj
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 difference	det
27	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 see	obj
28	between	between	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 difference	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		the king		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	hear	past	king	this		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
3	take	past	king	the canes		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cane=Theme
4	examine	past	king not said here	canes = cane	closely property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	see	could	king	no difference	between canes = cane	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer difference=Stimulus

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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