The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 41

‘I will do it,’ replied the king; and he listened with all his might, till he judged that the white-faced horse was close to him.

Who acts: I, king, faced horse · What happens: do, reply, listen, judge, be · To what, where: head, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, king, faced horse), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 replied	ccomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
8	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 replied	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 listened	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 listened	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 listened	nsubj
14	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 replied	parataxis
15	with	with	SCONJ	_	18 might	mark
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 might	det:predet
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 might	nmod:poss
18	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 listened	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 judged	punct
20	till	till	SCONJ	_	22 judged	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 judged	nsubj
22	judged	judge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 listened	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 close	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 horse	det
25	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 faced	amod
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 white	punct
27	faced	faced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 horse	amod
28	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 close	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 close	cop
30	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 judged	ccomp
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 close	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	future	I	head			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	reply speech: assert	past		the king			tree rules
3	listen	past	king				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	judge	past	king				vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	the faced horse		king	close 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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