The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 8

Not very long after, the Princess had a baby, a little boy, but when the King her father heard of it he was very angry and afraid, for now the child was born that should be his death.

Who acts: Princess, King, that · What happens: have, hear, be, bear · To what, where: baby, child, death

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 (Princess, King, that), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 long	advmod
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 long	advmod
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 had	advmod
4	after	after	ADV	_	3 long	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 long	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Princess	det
7	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 baby	det
10	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 boy	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 boy	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 boy	amod
14	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 baby	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 heard	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 heard	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 heard	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 King	det
19	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 heard	nsubj
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 father	nmod:poss
21	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 King	nmod
22	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 had	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 heard	obl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 angry	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 angry	cop
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 angry	advmod
28	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 heard	parataxis
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 afraid	cc
30	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 angry	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 born	punct
32	for	for	SCONJ	_	37 born	mark
33	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 born	advmod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 child	det
35	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 born	nsubj:pass
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 born	aux:pass
37	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 heard	conj
38	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 death	nsubj
39	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 death	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 death	cop
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 death	nmod:poss
42	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 born	parataxis
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Princess	a baby and a little boy		long property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient
2	hear	past	the King Princess's father			of shower	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus
3	is	past	king			angry property	tree rules
4	be		king not said here				tree rules
5	bear	past · passive		the child	now		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	is a	should	that	king's death			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 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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