The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 94

In the evening, when the King came home and heard the news of his son’s birth, he was full of delight, and insisted on going at once to his dear wife’s bedside to see how she was getting on.

Who acts: King, Queen · What happens: come, hear, be, insist, go, see · To what, where: news · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Queen), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 evening	punct
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 came	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 heard	cc
11	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 news	det
13	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heard	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 birth	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 son	nmod:poss
16	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 birth	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 son	case
18	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 news	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 full	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 full	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 full	cop
22	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 heard	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 delight	case
24	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 full	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 insisted	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 insisted	cc
27	insisted	insist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 came	conj
28	on	on	SCONJ	_	29 going	mark
29	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 insisted	advcl
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 once	case
31	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	29 going	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	37 bedside	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 wife	nmod:poss
34	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 wife	amod
35	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 bedside	nmod:poss
36	’s	's	PART	_	35 wife	case
37	bedside	bedside	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 once	obl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 see	mark
39	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 going	advcl
40	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	43 getting	advmod
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 getting	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 getting	aux
43	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 see	ccomp
44	on	on	ADP	_	43 getting	compound:prt
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the King		evening	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hear	past	the King not said here	the news of King's son's birth			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus
3	is	past	King			of delight; full property	tree rules
4	insist speech: other	participle	the King not said here				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	go	gerund	the King not said here			once property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	see	to-infinitive	the King not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	get on	past · progressive	Queen				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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