The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 26

So she told him that the King had come home again, and that the Queen had pretended to be ill, and that she had made the doctor say that she could never be well again unless some of the flesh of the Blue Bull was given her to eat, and that now he was to be killed.

Who acts: daughter, King, Queen, doctor · What happens: tell, come, pretend, be, make, say · To what, where: bull, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, King, Queen, doctor), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 told	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	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 told	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 come	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 come	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 come	aux
9	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 told	ccomp
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 come	advmod
11	again	again	ADV	_	9 come	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pretended	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 pretended	cc
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 pretended	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Queen	det
16	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 pretended	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 pretended	aux
18	pretended	pretend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 told	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	21 ill	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 ill	cop
21	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 pretended	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 made	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 made	cc
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 made	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 made	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 made	aux
27	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 told	ccomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 doctor	det
29	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 say	nsubj
30	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 made	parataxis
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 given	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 given	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 given	aux
34	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	37 again	advmod
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 again	cop
36	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 again	advmod
37	again	again	ADV	_	48 given	advmod
38	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	48 given	mark
39	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	48 given	nsubj:pass
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 flesh	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 flesh	det
42	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 some	nmod
43	of	of	ADP	_	46 Bull	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Bull	det
45	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 Bull	amod
46	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 flesh	nmod
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 given	aux:pass
48	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 say	ccomp
49	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 given	obj
50	to	to	PART	_	51 eat	mark
51	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 given	advcl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 killed	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 killed	cc
54	that	that	SCONJ	_	55 now	mark
55	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	60 killed	advcl
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 killed	nsubj:pass
57	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 killed	aux:pass
58	to	to	PART	_	60 killed	mark
59	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	60 killed	aux:pass
60	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 told	conj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	daughter		bull			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	come	past · perfect	the King			again	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pretend	past · perfect	the Queen					tree rules
4	is	to-infinitive	the Queen not said here				ill property	tree rules
5	make	past · perfect	daughter					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	say speech: assert	infinitive	the doctor					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	not is	infinitive					again, well property	tree rules
8	give a condition, not said to happen	could · passive		daughter				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Theme
9	eat	to-infinitive						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	kill	past · passive		bull				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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