The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 18

So the King asked her again what was the matter, and this time she answered that in eating her porridge too hastily she had swallowed her wedding-ring.

Who acts: King, Queen · What happens: ask, answer, eat, swallow · To what, where: Queen, porridge, wedding ring · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 asked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	iobj
6	again	again	ADV	_	4 asked	advmod
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 asked	obj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 what	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 matter	det
10	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 was	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 answered	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 answered	cc
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 answered	obl:unmarked
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 answered	nsubj
16	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asked	parataxis
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 swallowed	mark
18	in	in	SCONJ	_	19 eating	mark
19	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 swallowed	advcl
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 porridge	nmod:poss
21	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 eating	obj
22	too	too	ADV	_	23 hastily	advmod
23	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	19 eating	advmod
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 swallowed	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 swallowed	aux
26	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 answered	ccomp
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 ring	nmod:poss
28	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 ring	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 wedding	punct
30	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 swallowed	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the King		Queen	again		tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	Queen			time		tree rules
3	eat	gerund	Queen not said here	Queen's porridge			hastily property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent porridge=Patient
4	swallow	past · perfect	Queen	Queen's wedding ring				vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=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 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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