The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 14

The King was speedily told what had happened, and how the Princess was in terror of the angry Queen, but he only said: ‘The Queen must do as she pleases.

Who acts: Princess, King, Queen · What happens: tell, happen, be, say, do, please · To what, where: King, terror · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, King, Queen), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	aux:pass
4	speedily	speedily	ADV	_	5 told	advmod
5	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 happened	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 happened	aux
8	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 told	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 terror	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 terror	cc
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 terror	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Princess	det
13	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 terror	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 terror	cop
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 terror	case
16	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 happened	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 Queen	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Queen	det
19	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Queen	amod
20	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 terror	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 said	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 said	nsubj
24	only	only	ADV	_	25 said	advmod
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	conj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 do	punct
27	‘	'	PUNCT	_	31 do	punct
28	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Queen	det
29	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 do	nsubj
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 do	aux
31	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 said	ccomp
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 pleases	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 pleases	nsubj
34	pleases	please	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 do	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		the King		speedily property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	happen	past · perfect					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	the Princess		terror	of the angry Queen	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	King				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	do	must	the Queen				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	please	present	Queen				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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