The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 79
‘To Whiteland,’ said the King, and then he related what had happened to him.
Who acts: King · What happens: say, relate, happen · To what, where: Whiteland, King · 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 (King), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 Whiteland | case |
| 3 | Whiteland | Whiteland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Whiteland | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Whiteland | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 related | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 related | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 related | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 related | nsubj |
| 13 | related | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 happened | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 happened | aux |
| 16 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 related | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 happened | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the King | Whiteland | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to whiteland=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | relate | past | King | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | happen | past · perfect | King | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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