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The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 56

Then the chamberlain went away, and spoke to the king who sat on the throne, and the old king heard words like 'mad,' 'age,' 'compassion.'

Who acts: chamberlain, king, old king · What happens: go away, speak, sit, hear, word · To what, where: throne · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chamberlain, king, old 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

advmoddetnsubjadvmodpunctccconjcasedetoblnsubjacl:relclcasedetoblpunctccdetamodnsubjamodoblcasepunctappospunctpunctpunctoblpunctpunctcaseparataxispunctpunctrootThenADVtheDETchamberlainNOUNwentVERBawayADV,PUNCTandCCONJspokeVERBtoADPtheDETkingNOUNwhoPRONsatVERBonADPtheDETthroneNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDEToldADJkingNOUNheardVERBwordsNOUNlikeADP'PUNCTmadADJ,PUNCT'PUNCT'PUNCTageNOUN,PUNCT'PUNCT'PARTcompassionNOUN.PUNCT'PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem4 wentadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 chamberlaindet
3chamberlainchamberlainNOUNNumber=Sing4 wentnsubj
4wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5awayawayADV_4 wentadvmod
6,,PUNCT_8 spokepunct
7andandCCONJ_8 spokecc
8spokespeakVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 wentconj
9totoADP_11 kingcase
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 kingdet
11kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing8 spokeobl
12whowhoPRONPronType=Rel13 satnsubj
13satsitVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 kingacl:relcl
14ononADP_16 thronecase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 thronedet
16thronethroneNOUNNumber=Sing13 satobl
17,,PUNCT_23 wordspunct
18andandCCONJ_23 wordscc
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 kingdet
20oldoldADJDegree=Pos21 kingamod
21kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing23 wordsnsubj
22heardhearVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass23 wordsamod
23wordswordNOUNNumber=Plur4 wentobl
24likelikeADP_26 madcase
25''PUNCT_26 madpunct
26madmadADJDegree=Pos23 wordsappos
27,,PUNCT_30 agepunct
28''PUNCT_30 agepunct
29''PUNCT_30 agepunct
30ageageNOUNNumber=Sing26 madobl
31,,PUNCT_34 compassionpunct
32''PUNCT_34 compassionpunct
33''sPART_32 'case
34compassioncompassionNOUNNumber=Sing4 wentparataxis
35..PUNCT_34 compassionpunct
36''PUNCT_34 compassionpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1go awaypastthe chamberlainthenaway propertyvn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2speak speech: otherpastthe chamberlain not said hereto the kingvn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to king=Co-Agent
3sitpastthe kingthe thronevn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location
4hearparticiplevn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
5wordthe old kingtree 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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