The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 2

And then he stroked and petted her, and told her of his successful journey, and how he had come back to ask her help, as he believed that it was impossible to find what the King demanded.

Who acts: King, her · What happens: stroke, pet, tell, come back, ask, believe · To what, where: her, help · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, her), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 stroked	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 stroked	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stroked	nsubj
4	stroked	stroke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 petted	cc
6	petted	pet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stroked	conj
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 petted	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 told	cc
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stroked	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 journey	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 journey	nmod:poss
14	successful	successful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 journey	amod
15	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 come	cc
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 come	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 come	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux
21	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 stroked	conj
22	back	back	ADV	_	21 come	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 ask	mark
24	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 come	advcl
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 help	nmod:poss
26	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ask	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 believed	punct
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 believed	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 believed	nsubj
30	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 ask	advcl
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 impossible	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 impossible	expl
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 impossible	cop
34	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 believed	ccomp
35	to	to	PART	_	36 find	mark
36	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 impossible	csubj
37	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	40 demanded	obj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 King	det
39	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 demanded	nsubj
40	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 find	ccomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stroked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	stroke	past	King			then		vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	pet	past	King not said here	her = she				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	King not said here		her = she		of King's successful journey	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	come back	past · perfect	King					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	King not said here	her help				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent help=Recipient
6	believe	past	King					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
7	is	past					impossible property	tree rules
8	find	to-infinitive						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
9	demand speech: request	past	the King					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Precondition
10	journey		King					nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent
11	help		her = she					nom help «act transitive»: 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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