The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 51
The king sent messengers to see what had become of him, and he was found, trembling with fear, hiding under his bed.
Who acts: king · What happens: send, see, become, find, tremble, hide · To what, where: messengers, king, bed · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. 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 | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sent | advcl |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 become | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 become | aux |
| 9 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 see | ccomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 become | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 found | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 found | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 found | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 found | aux:pass |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sent | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 trembling | punct |
| 18 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 found | advcl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 fear | case |
| 20 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 trembling | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hiding | punct |
| 22 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 trembling | conj |
| 23 | under | under | ADP | _ | 25 bed | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 bed | nmod:poss |
| 25 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hiding | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the king | messengers | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the king not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | become | past · perfect | of king | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | find | past · passive | king | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 5 | tremble | gerund | with fear | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | hide | gerund | king's bed | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under bed=Location |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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