The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 208

And as the King was old and had no heirs, he put them on the throne in his place.

Who acts: King · What happens: be, have, put · To what, where: heirs, throne

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 (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	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 put	cc
2	as	as	ADP	_	6 old	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 old	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 old	cop
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 put	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 had	cc
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 old	conj
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 heirs	det
10	heirs	heir	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 had	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 put	nsubj
13	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 put	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 throne	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 throne	det
17	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 place	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 place	nmod:poss
20	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the King			old property	tree rules
2	have	past	the King not said here	no heirs			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heir=Patient
3	put	past	King	heirs = heir	the throne	in King's place	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on throne=Destination

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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