The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 96

At last news reached the king that Moti had exchanged his horse for a live tiger; and the monarch himself came down, half disbelieving the tale, to see if it were really true.

Who acts: monarch · What happens: reach, exchange, come down, disbelieve, see, be · To what, where: king, last news, Moti, tale

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monarch), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 news	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 news	amod
3	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obl
4	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 exchanged	mark
8	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 exchanged	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 exchanged	aux
10	exchanged	exchange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reached	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 horse	nmod:poss
12	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 exchanged	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 tiger	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 tiger	det
15	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tiger	amod
16	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 exchanged	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 came	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 came	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 monarch	det
20	monarch	monarch	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	nsubj
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	20 monarch	nmod:unmarked
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reached	conj
23	down	down	ADV	_	22 came	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 disbelieving	punct
25	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	26 disbelieving	advmod
26	disbelieving	disbelieve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 came	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tale	det
28	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 disbelieving	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 see	punct
30	to	to	PART	_	31 see	mark
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 disbelieving	advcl
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 true	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 true	nsubj
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 true	cop
35	really	really	ADV	_	36 true	advmod
36	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 see	ccomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past		the king	last news		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent king=Theme at news=Asset
2	exchange	past · perfect · passive		Moti		for a live tiger	tree rules
3	come down	past	the monarch Moti			down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	disbelieve	gerund	the monarch Moti not said here	the tale		half property	tree rules
5	see	to-infinitive	the monarch Moti not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a condition, not said to happen	past	monarch			true property	tree rules

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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