The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 5

All this was soon told to the King up at the palace, and when he heard what sorrow the woman was in, and the reason of it, he said that he himself would take the child and see if he could not save it.

Who acts: fish, woman · What happens: tell up, hear, sorrow, be, say, take · To what, where: this, King, palace, child · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fish, woman), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 this	det:predet
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 told	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	aux:pass
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 told	advmod
5	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 King	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 told	obl
9	up	up	ADP	_	5 told	compound:prt
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 palace	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 palace	det
12	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 heard	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 heard	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 heard	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 heard	nsubj
17	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	parataxis
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 sorrow	nsubj
19	sorrow	sorrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 heard	ccomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 woman	det
21	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 in	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 in	cop
23	in	in	ADV	_	19 sorrow	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 reason	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 reason	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 reason	det
27	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heard	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 reason	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 said	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 said	nsubj
32	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 heard	conj
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 take	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 take	nsubj
35	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	34 he	nmod:unmarked
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 take	aux
37	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 said	ccomp
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 child	det
39	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 take	obj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 see	cc
41	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 take	conj
42	if	if	SCONJ	_	46 save	mark
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 save	nsubj
44	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 save	aux
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 save	advmod
46	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 see	advcl
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 save	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell up speech: assert	past · passive		this	the King	the palace	soon property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to king=Recipient
2	hear	past	fish					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	sorrow	present						vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	the woman				in property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	fish					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	take	would	fish		the child			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument child=Destination
7	see	infinitive	fish not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	not save a condition, not said to happen	could	fish	child				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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