The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 135

When the king had heard the story, he decided that the feather belonged to his son; but the other boy would not listen to this and claimed the feather for himself.

Who acts: king, feather, other boy · What happens: hear, decide, belong, not listen, claim · To what, where: story, feather · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, feather, other boy), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	aux
5	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 story	det
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 decided	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 decided	nsubj
10	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 belonged	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 feather	det
13	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 belonged	nsubj
14	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 decided	ccomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 son	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 son	nmod:poss
17	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 belonged	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 listen	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 listen	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 boy	det
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 boy	amod
22	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 listen	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 listen	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 listen	advmod
25	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 heard	parataxis
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 this	case
27	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 listen	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 claimed	cc
29	claimed	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 listen	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 feather	det
31	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 claimed	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 himself	case
33	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 claimed	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect	the king	the story		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
2	decide	past	king			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	belong	past	the feather		to king's son	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
4	not listen	would	the other boy		to this	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to this=Theme
5	claim speech: other	past	the other boy not said here	the feather	for boy	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent feather=Topic

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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