The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 112

But whom should he meet in the very street of the town but his own mother, flying for her life from the wicked King, who now wished to kill her because he found that she would never marry him!

Who acts: boy, wicked King, mother · What happens: meet, fly, wish, kill, find, not marry · To what, where: street, mother, boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, wicked King, mother), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 meet	cc
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 meet	obj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 meet	aux
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 meet	nsubj
5	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 street	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 street	det
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 street	advmod
9	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meet	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 town	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 town	det
12	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 street	nmod
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 mother	cc
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mother	nmod:poss
15	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mother	amod
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 street	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 flying	punct
18	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 meet	advcl
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 life	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 life	nmod:poss
21	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flying	obl
22	from	from	ADP	_	25 King	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 King	det
24	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 King	amod
25	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 flying	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 wished	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 wished	nsubj
28	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 wished	advmod
29	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 King	acl:relcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 kill	mark
31	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 wished	xcomp
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 kill	obj
33	because	because	SCONJ	_	35 found	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 found	nsubj
35	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 wished	advcl
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 marry	mark
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 marry	nsubj
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 marry	aux
39	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	40 marry	advmod
40	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 found	ccomp
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 marry	obj
42	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 meet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	should	boy		the street of the town but boy's own mother			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Co-Agent
2	fly	gerund	boy not said here				for mother's life; from the wicked King	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from king=Trajectory
3	wish	past	the wicked King			now		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	kill not said to happen	to-infinitive	the wicked King not said here	mother				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	find	past	boy					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	not marry	would	mother	boy				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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