The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 22

Then it was the King’s turn to look sad, and at last he said:

Who acts: ring, turn · What happens: be, look, say · To what, where: turn, last · 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 (ring, turn), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 turn	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 turn	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 turn	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 turn	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 King	case
7	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 look	mark
9	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 turn	acl
10	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 look	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 last	case
14	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	ring	the King's turn		then		tree rules
2	look	to-infinitive	the King's turn not said here				sad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	the King's turn		last			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 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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