The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 243

The King, as he had had no dinner, was very hungry and wanted his supper early, but when he asked for it, lo and behold it was all gone, and he had to go to bed half-starved and in a terrible temper.

Who acts: Frisk, King, supper · What happens: have, be, want, ask, go, starve · To what, where: dinner, supper, bed

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 (Frisk, King, supper), 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	13 hungry	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 had	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 had	aux
7	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 King	acl:relcl
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 dinner	det
9	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 King	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hungry	cop
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 hungry	advmod
13	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wanted	cc
15	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hungry	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 supper	nmod:poss
17	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wanted	obj
18	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 wanted	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 gone	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 gone	cc
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 asked	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 asked	nsubj
23	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 gone	advcl
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 asked	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 asked	punct
27	lo	lo	INTJ	_	33 gone	aux
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 behold	cc
29	behold	behold	INTJ	_	27 lo	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 gone	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 gone	cop
32	all	all	ADV	_	33 gone	advmod
33	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hungry	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 had	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 had	cc
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 had	nsubj
37	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hungry	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 go	mark
39	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 had	xcomp
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 bed	case
41	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 go	obl
42	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	44 starved	compound
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 half	punct
44	starved	starve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 go	advcl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 temper	cc
46	in	in	ADP	_	49 temper	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 temper	det
48	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 temper	amod
49	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 starved	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 hungry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past · perfect	Frisk	no dinner			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient
2	is	past	the King			hungry property	tree rules
3	want	past	the King not said here	Frisk's supper		early property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot supper=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	past	Frisk			for supper	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is		supper			all, gone property	tree rules
6	have	past	Frisk				tree rules
7	go	to-infinitive	Frisk not said here		bed		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
8	starve	participle	Frisk not said here				tree rules

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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