The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 52

The porter shuts his wicket and goes up to say it to the King, who was just sitting down to dinner with a napkin round his neck, and all his ministers.

Who acts: porter, King · What happens: shut, go up, say, sit down · To what, where: wicket, King · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (porter, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 porter	det
2	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shuts	nsubj
3	shuts	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wicket	nmod:poss
5	wicket	wicket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shuts	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 goes	cc
7	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shuts	conj
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 goes	compound:prt
9	to	to	PART	_	10 say	mark
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 goes	xcomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 say	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 King	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 King	det
14	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 say	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sitting	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 sitting	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sitting	aux
18	just	just	ADV	_	19 sitting	advmod
19	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 King	acl:relcl
20	down	down	ADV	_	19 sitting	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 dinner	case
22	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sitting	obl
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 napkin	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 napkin	det
25	napkin	napkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sitting	obl
26	round	round	ADP	_	28 neck	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 neck	nmod:poss
28	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 napkin	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 ministers	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 ministers	cc
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 ministers	det:predet
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 ministers	nmod:poss
33	ministers	minister	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shuts	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shuts	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	shut	present	the porter	porter's wicket			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wicket=Patient
2	go up	present	the porter not said here				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the porter not said here	wicket	the King		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to king=Recipient
4	sit down	past · progressive	the King			to dinner; with a napkin round King's neck; down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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