The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 110

Ian Direach listened to the words of the fox, and he told a tale so pitiful, that the king and queen, and the princess their daughter, all came out to hear it.

Who acts: Ian, princess, king · What happens: listen, tell, daughter, come out, hear, word · To what, where: tale, ship, fox · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (Ian, princess, 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	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 listened	nsubj
2	Direach	Direach	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ian	flat
3	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 words	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 words	det
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 listened	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 fox	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fox	det
9	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 words	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	nsubj
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 listened	parataxis
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 tale	det
15	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	obj
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 pitiful	advmod
17	pitiful	pitiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 told	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 came	punct
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 came	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 king	det
21	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 came	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 queen	cc
23	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 king	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 daughter	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 daughter	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 princess	det
27	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 daughter	nsubj
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 daughter	nmod:poss
29	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 king	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 came	punct
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 came	advmod
32	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 told	conj
33	out	out	ADV	_	32 came	advmod
34	to	to	PART	_	35 hear	mark
35	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 came	advcl
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 hear	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 listened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	listen	past	Ian		to the words of the fox	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	Ian	a tale	pitiful property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient
3	daughter		the princess			tree rules
4	come out	past	the king and queen and king's daughter		out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
5	hear	to-infinitive	the king and queen and king's daughter not said here	ship		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
6	word			the fox		nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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