The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 81

As the North Wind had said, so did the King.

What happens: say, do · To what, where: 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: 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	As	as	ADP	_	4 Wind	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Wind	det
3	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Wind	compound
4	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	aux
6	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 did	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 did	advmod
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 King	det
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 did	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · perfect						as the North Wind	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past		the King					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality

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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