The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 205

When she had told him all her adventures, he said to her:

Who acts: mother, King · What happens: tell, say, adventure · To what, where: adventures, mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, King), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 told	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 adventures	det:predet
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 adventures	nmod:poss
8	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 told	iobj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	obl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	mother	mother's adventures	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient adventure=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	King	mother	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
3	adventure		mother		nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=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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