The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 71

Now the King was astonished to hear so fine a speech from a Pig, and at once it occurred to him that something strange was the matter.

Who acts: King, speech, something · What happens: be, hear, occur · To what, where: fine speech, King, matter

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, speech, something), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 astonished	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 astonished	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 astonished	cop
5	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hear	mark
7	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 astonished	xcomp
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 fine	advmod
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 speech	amod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 speech	det
11	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hear	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 Pig	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 Pig	det
14	Pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 speech	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 occurred	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 occurred	cc
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 once	case
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 occurred	obl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 occurred	nsubj
20	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 astonished	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 occurred	obl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 matter	mark
24	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	28 matter	nsubj
25	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 something	amod
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 matter	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 matter	det
28	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 occurred	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 astonished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the King			now	astonished property	tree rules
2	hear	to-infinitive	the King not said here	a fine speech			from a Pig	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent speech=Topic from pig=Source
3	occur	past	speech		King			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location
4	is a	past	something	the matter				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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