The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 4

The king welcomed the girls eagerly, and asked them all manner of questions about the tree, but as they had never even heard of its existence, they could tell him nothing.

Who acts: king, girls, tree · What happens: welcome, ask, not hear, tell, exist · To what, where: girls, manner, nothing, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, girls, tree), 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 welcomed	nsubj
3	welcomed	welcome	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girls	det
5	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 welcomed	obj
6	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	3 welcomed	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 asked	cc
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 welcomed	parataxis
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 asked	obj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 manner	det
12	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asked	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 questions	case
14	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 manner	nmod
15	about	about	ADP	_	17 tree	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tree	det
17	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 questions	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 tell	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 tell	cc
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 heard	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 heard	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 heard	aux
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 heard	advmod
24	even	even	ADV	_	25 heard	advmod
25	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 tell	advcl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 existence	case
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 existence	nmod:poss
28	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 heard	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 heard	punct
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 tell	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 tell	aux
32	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 asked	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 tell	iobj
34	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	32 tell	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 welcomed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	welcome	past	the king	the girls		eagerly property	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past		all manner of questions about the tree	girls = girl		tree rules
3	not hear	past · perfect	girls = girl			of tree's existence	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of existence=Stimulus
4	tell speech: assert	could	girls = girl	nothing	king		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient nothing=Topic
5	exist		tree				nom existence «state 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 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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