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The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 14

This happened to be the Duchess Grumbly’s castle, and when she heard that the King was coming she went out to meet him, and said that the cellar was the coolest place in the whole castle if he would condescend to come down into it.

Who acts: This, castle, King, cellar, tongue · What happens: happen, be, hear, come, go out, meet · To what, where: castle, tongue, coolest place, whole castle, cellar · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, castle, King, cellar), 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

nsubjmarkcopdetcompoundnmod:posscaseadvclpunctccadvmodnsubjparataxismarkdetnsubjauxccompnsubjccompadvmodmarkadvclobjpunctccparataxismarkdetnsubjcopdetamodccompcasedetamodnmodmarknsubjauxccompmarkxcompadvmodcaseoblpunctrootThisPRONhappenedVERBtoPARTbeAUXtheDETDuchessPROPNGrumblyPROPN’sPARTcastleNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwhenADVshePRONheardVERBthatSCONJtheDETKingPROPNwasAUXcomingVERBshePRONwentVERBoutADVtoPARTmeetVERBhimPRON,PUNCTandCCONJsaidVERBthatSCONJtheDETcellarNOUNwasAUXtheDETcoolestADJplaceNOUNinADPtheDETwholeADJcastleNOUNifSCONJhePRONwouldAUXcondescendVERBtoPARTcomeVERBdownADVintoADPitPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThisthisPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem2 happenednsubj
2happenedhappenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3totoPART_9 castlemark
4bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf9 castlecop
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 Grumblydet
6DuchessDuchessPROPNNumber=Sing7 Grumblycompound
7GrumblyGrumblyPROPNNumber=Sing9 castlenmod:poss
8’s'sPART_7 Grumblycase
9castlecastleNOUNNumber=Sing2 happenedadvcl
10,,PUNCT_14 heardpunct
11andandCCONJ_14 heardcc
12whenwhenADVPronType=Int14 heardadvmod
13sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 heardnsubj
14heardhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 happenedparataxis
15thatthatSCONJ_19 comingmark
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 Kingdet
17KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing19 comingnsubj
18wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 comingaux
19comingcomeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part14 heardccomp
20sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 wentnsubj
21wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 comingccomp
22outoutADV_21 wentadvmod
23totoPART_24 meetmark
24meetmeetVERBVerbForm=Inf21 wentadvcl
25himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 meetobj
26,,PUNCT_28 saidpunct
27andandCCONJ_28 saidcc
28saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 heardparataxis
29thatthatSCONJ_35 placemark
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 cellardet
31cellarcellarNOUNNumber=Sing35 placensubj
32wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin35 placecop
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 placedet
34coolestcoolADJDegree=Sup35 placeamod
35placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing28 saidccomp
36ininADP_39 castlecase
37thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art39 castledet
38wholewholeADJDegree=Pos39 castleamod
39castlecastleNOUNNumber=Sing35 placenmod
40ififSCONJ_43 condescendmark
41hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs43 condescendnsubj
42wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin43 condescendaux
43condescendcondescendVERBVerbForm=Inf28 saidccomp
44totoPART_45 comemark
45comecomeVERBVerbForm=Inf43 condescendxcomp
46downdownADV_45 comeadvmod
47intointoADP_48 itcase
48ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs45 comeobl
49..PUNCT_2 happenedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1happenpastThisvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2is ato-infinitiveThis not said herethe Duchess Grumbly's castletree rules
3hearpastcastlevn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4comepast · progressivethe Kingtree rules
5go outpastcastleout propertyvn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6meetto-infinitivecastle not said heretonguevn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
7say speech: assertpastvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8is apastthe cellarthe coolest placethe whole castletree rules
9condescend a condition, not said to happenwouldtonguetree rules
10come downto-infinitivetongue not said herecellardown propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into it=Initial_Location

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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