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The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 60

Well, these events had almost been forgotten when one fine day a prince from the East appeared at the Court and asked the King for the hand of his eldest daughter.

Who acts: prince · What happens: forget, appear, ask · To what, where: events, Court, King

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 (prince), 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

discoursepunctdetnsubjauxadvmodaux:passadvmodnummodamodobl:unmarkeddetnsubjcasedetnmodadvclcasedetoblccconjdetobjcasedetoblcasenmod:possamodnmodpunctrootWellINTJ,PUNCTtheseDETeventsNOUNhadAUXalmostADVbeenAUXforgottenVERBwhenADVoneNUMfineADJdayNOUNaDETprinceNOUNfromADPtheDETEastPROPNappearedVERBatADPtheDETCourtNOUNandCCONJaskedVERBtheDETKingPROPNforADPtheDEThandNOUNofADPhisPRONeldestADJdaughterNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WellwellINTJ_8 forgottendiscourse
2,,PUNCT_1 Wellpunct
3thesethisDETNumber=Plur PronType=Dem4 eventsdet
4eventseventNOUNNumber=Plur8 forgottennsubj
5hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 forgottenaux
6almostalmostADV_8 forgottenadvmod
7beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part8 forgottenaux:pass
8forgottenforgetVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
9whenwhenADVPronType=Int18 appearedadvmod
10oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card12 daynummod
11finefineADJDegree=Pos12 dayamod
12daydayNOUNNumber=Sing18 appearedobl:unmarked
13aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art14 princedet
14princeprinceNOUNNumber=Sing18 appearednsubj
15fromfromADP_17 Eastcase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 Eastdet
17EastEastPROPNNumber=Sing14 princenmod
18appearedappearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 forgottenadvcl
19atatADP_21 Courtcase
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 Courtdet
21CourtcourtNOUNNumber=Sing18 appearedobl
22andandCCONJ_23 askedcc
23askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 appearedconj
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 Kingdet
25KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing23 askedobj
26forforADP_28 handcase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 handdet
28handhandNOUNNumber=Sing23 askedobl
29ofofADP_32 daughtercase
30hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs32 daughternmod:poss
31eldesteldADJDegree=Sup32 daughteramod
32daughterdaughterNOUNNumber=Sing28 handnmod
33..PUNCT_8 forgottenpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1forgetpast · perfect · passivethis eventsalmost propertytree rules
2appearpasta prince from the Eastthe Courtdayvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at court=Location
3ask speech: askpasta prince from the East not said herethe Kingfor the hand of King's eldest daughtervn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient

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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