The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 66

The King thanked him, put on the shoes, and when he had got to him who was Lord of all the fish in the sea, he turned the snow shoes round, and back they went just as the others had gone, and he asked once more where Whiteland was.

Who acts: King, shoes, others, Whiteland · What happens: thank, put, get, be, turn, go · To what, where: brother, shoes, Lord, snow shoes

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 (King, shoes, others, Whiteland), 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	3 thanked	nsubj
3	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thanked	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 put	punct
6	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 thanked	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 shoes	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shoes	det
9	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 put	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 got	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 got	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 got	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 got	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 got	aux
15	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 thanked	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 got	obl
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 Lord	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 Lord	cop
20	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 got	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 fish	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 fish	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 fish	det
24	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 Lord	nmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 sea	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sea	det
27	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fish	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 turned	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 turned	nsubj
30	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thanked	parataxis
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 shoes	det
32	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 shoes	compound
33	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 turned	obj
34	round	round	ADV	_	30 turned	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 went	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 went	cc
37	back	back	ADV	_	39 went	advmod
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 went	nsubj
39	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 turned	conj
40	just	just	ADV	_	45 gone	advmod
41	as	as	SCONJ	_	45 gone	mark
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 others	det
43	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 gone	nsubj
44	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 gone	aux
45	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 went	parataxis
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 asked	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 asked	cc
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 asked	nsubj
49	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thanked	parataxis
50	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	51 more	advmod
51	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	49 asked	advmod
52	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	54 was	advmod
53	Whiteland	Whiteland	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 was	nsubj
54	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 asked	advcl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	the King		brother			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	put	participle	the King not said here			the shoes		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on shoe=Destination
3	get	past · perfect	King		brother			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to he=Result
4	is a	past		Lord			of all fish in the sea	tree rules
5	turn	past	King	the snow shoes			round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme
6	go	past	shoes = shoe					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	go	past · perfect	the others					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	ask speech: ask	past	King					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	be	past	Whiteland					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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