The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 111

And when they had heard, nought would please them except to go down to the shore and visit the ship, which by now was floating, for the tide was up.

Who acts: king, nought · What happens: hear, please, go down, visit, float · To what, where: king, ship

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 (king, nought), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 heard	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 heard	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	aux
5	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 please	punct
7	nought	nought	PRON	PronType=Neg	9 please	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 please	aux
9	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 heard	parataxis
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 please	obj
11	except	except	ADP	_	13 go	mark
12	to	to	PART	_	13 go	mark
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 please	advcl
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 go	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 shore	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 shore	det
17	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 go	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 visit	cc
19	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 go	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ship	det
21	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 visit	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 floating	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 floating	obj
24	by	by	ADP	_	25 now	case
25	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 floating	obl
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 floating	aux
27	floating	float	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 ship	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 tide	punct
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 tide	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 tide	det
31	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 floating	obl
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 up	cop
33	up	up	ADP	_	31 tide	compound
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect	king			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	please	would	nought	king		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
3	go down	to-infinitive	nought not said here		to the shore; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	visit	infinitive	nought not said here	the ship		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Co-Agent
5	float	past · progressive	nought not said here	the ship	for the tide	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent which=Theme by now=Trajectory

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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