The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 7

In the course of the beat his dogs disturbed a beautiful snow-white stag, and directly he saw it the king determined that he would have it at any cost.

Who acts: dogs, king · What happens: disturb, see, determine, have · To what, where: beautiful white stag, course, stag, cost · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dogs, 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 course	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 course	det
3	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 disturbed	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 beat	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 beat	det
6	beat	beat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 course	nmod
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 dogs	nmod:poss
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 disturbed	nsubj
9	disturbed	disturb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 stag	det
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stag	amod
12	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 white	obl
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 snow	punct
14	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stag	amod
15	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 disturbed	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 saw	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 saw	cc
18	directly	directly	ADV	_	20 saw	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 saw	nsubj
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 disturbed	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 saw	obj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 king	det
23	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 determined	nsubj
24	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 saw	ccomp
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 have	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 have	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 have	aux
28	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 determined	ccomp
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 have	obj
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 cost	case
31	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	32 cost	det
32	cost	cost	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 disturbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	disturb	past	king's dogs	a beautiful white stag	the course of the beat		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus stag=Experiencer
2	see	past	king	stag		directly property	tree rules
3	determine	past	the king				vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	have	would	king	stag	any cost		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 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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