The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 194

All the palace was in confusion on account of the King’s death, but tiny Frisk made his way through the crowd to the Princess’s side, and said:

Who acts: palace, tiny Frisk, King · What happens: be, make, say, account, die · To what, where: confusion, way, crowd, death · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (palace, tiny Frisk, King), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 palace	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 palace	det
3	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 confusion	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 confusion	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 confusion	case
6	confusion	confusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 account	case
8	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 confusion	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 death	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 King	det
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 death	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 King	case
13	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 account	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 made	cc
16	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Frisk	amod
17	Frisk	Frisk	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 made	nsubj
18	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 confusion	parataxis
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 way	nmod:poss
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obj
21	through	through	ADP	_	23 crowd	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 crowd	det
23	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obl
24	to	to	ADP	_	28 side	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Princess	det
26	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 side	nmod:poss
27	’s	's	PART	_	26 Princess	case
28	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 crowd	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 said	cc
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 made	conj
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 confusion	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	all palace		confusion	on account of the King's death	tree rules
2	make	past	tiny Frisk	Frisk's way	the crowd to the Princess's side		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Product
3	say speech: assert	past	tiny Frisk not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	account			the King's death			nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient
5	die		the King				nom death «event intransitive»: 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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