The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 144

On the third morning the king got up as usual before dawn, and as soon as he had eaten food he prepared to go out, when his wife stopped him.

Who acts: king, wife · What happens: get up, eat, prepare, go out, stop · To what, where: food, King

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, wife), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 morning	det
3	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 morning	amod
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	nsubj
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 got	compound:prt
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 usual	case
10	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 got	obl
11	before	before	ADP	_	12 dawn	case
12	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 prepared	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 prepared	cc
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 soon	advmod
16	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 prepared	advmod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 eaten	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 eaten	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 eaten	aux
20	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 soon	advcl
21	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eaten	obj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 prepared	nsubj
23	prepared	prepare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 got	parataxis
24	to	to	PART	_	25 go	mark
25	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 prepared	xcomp
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 go	compound:prt
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 stopped	punct
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 stopped	advmod
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 wife	nmod:poss
30	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stopped	nsubj
31	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 prepared	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 stopped	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	get up	past	the king		dawn; morning	as usual	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as usual=Attribute
2	eat	past · perfect	King	food			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
3	prepare	past	King			soon property	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
4	go out not said to happen	to-infinitive	King not said here				vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	stop	past	King's wife	King			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector he=Eventuality

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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