The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 19

And again the king listened to his wishes, and he and his dog were carried in a ship to the other side of the river, which was so broad here it might almost have been the sea.

Who acts: king, river · What happens: listen, carry, be, wish · To what, where: king, ship, sea

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, river), 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 listened	cc
2	again	again	ADV	_	5 listened	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 listened	nsubj
5	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 wishes	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wishes	nmod:poss
8	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 listened	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 carried	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 carried	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 carried	nsubj:pass
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 dog	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 dog	nmod:poss
14	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 he	conj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 carried	aux:pass
16	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 listened	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 ship	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 ship	det
19	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 carried	obl
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 side	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 side	det
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 side	amod
23	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 carried	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 river	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 river	det
26	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 side	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 broad	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 broad	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 broad	cop
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 broad	advmod
31	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 river	amod
32	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 broad	advmod
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 sea	nsubj
34	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 sea	aux
35	almost	almost	ADV	_	39 sea	advmod
36	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 sea	aux
37	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 sea	cop
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 sea	det
39	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 broad	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 listened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	past	the king			again	to king's wishes	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to wish=Theme
2	carry	past · passive		king	a ship		to the other side of the river	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to side=Destination
3	is	past	the river		here		broad property	tree rules
4	is a	might · perfect	river	the sea			almost property	tree rules
5	wish		king					nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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