The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 67

So the time passed, till lo and behold! one fine day an enormous pig from the North walked into the palace, and going straight up to the King said, ‘Hail! oh King.

Who acts: time, enormous pig · What happens: pass, walk, go, say · To what, where: palace, Hail · 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 (time, enormous pig), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 passed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 passed	nsubj
4	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lo	punct
6	till	till	ADP	_	7 lo	case
7	lo	lo	INTJ	_	4 passed	discourse
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 behold	cc
9	behold	behold	INTJ	_	7 lo	conj
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 passed	punct
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 day	nummod
12	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 day	amod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 walked	obl:unmarked
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 pig	det
15	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 pig	amod
16	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 walked	nsubj
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 North	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 North	det
19	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 pig	nmod
20	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 passed	conj
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 palace	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 palace	det
23	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 walked	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 said	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 said	cc
26	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 said	ccomp
27	straight	straight	ADV	_	28 up	advmod
28	up	up	ADV	_	26 going	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 King	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 King	det
31	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 going	obl
32	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 walked	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Hail	punct
34	‘	'	PUNCT	_	35 Hail	punct
35	Hail	hail	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 said	obj
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	35 Hail	punct
37	oh	oh	INTJ	_	38 King	discourse
38	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 said	ccomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	the time				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	walk	past	a enormous pig from the North		day	into the palace result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into palace=Result
3	go	gerund				to the King	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location
4	say speech: assert	past	a enormous pig from the North not said here	Hail			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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