The Blue Fairy Book, Toads and Diamonds, sentence 43

The King’s son, who saw five or six pearls and as many diamonds come out of her mouth, desired her to tell him how that happened.

Who acts: son, many diamonds, that · What happens: see, come out, desire, tell, happen · To what, where: five pearls, mouth, mother, son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Toads and Diamonds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, many diamonds, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 son	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 King	case
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 pearls	nummod
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 six	cc
10	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 five	conj
11	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 saw	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 come	cc
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 many	advmod
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 diamonds	amod
15	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 come	nsubj
16	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	conj
17	out	out	ADP	_	20 mouth	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 mouth	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mouth	nmod:poss
20	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 come	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 desired	punct
22	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	conj
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 desired	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 tell	mark
25	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 desired	advcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 tell	iobj
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	29 happened	advmod
28	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 happened	nsubj
29	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 tell	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	see	past	the King's son	five pearls		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pearl=Stimulus
2	come out	present	many diamonds	mother's mouth		vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient mouth=Result
3	desire	past	the King's son not said here	mother		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the King's son not said here		son	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	happen	past	that			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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