The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 81

As for the old king, he saw that he had lost the game; and in despair he flung himself into the caldron, and was fried instead of Jose.

Who acts: king · What happens: see, lose, fling, fry · To what, where: game, king, despair · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	5 king	case
2	for	for	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 king	amod
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 king	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 lost	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lost	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 lost	aux
12	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 saw	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 game	det
14	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lost	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 flung	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 flung	cc
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 despair	case
18	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flung	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 flung	nsubj
20	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saw	conj
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 flung	obj
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 caldron	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 caldron	det
24	caldron	caldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flung	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fried	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fried	cc
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 fried	aux:pass
28	fried	fry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 saw	conj
29	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	31 Jose	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	29 instead	fixed
31	Jose	Jose	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 fried	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	king			as the old king	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	lose	past · perfect	king	the game			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality
3	fling	past	king	king	despair	into the caldron	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in despair=Destination
4	fry	past · passive	king not said here			instead Jose	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»

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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