The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 76

When the King who was still at table heard this refrain, and the poultry woman came to tell him what had been going on in the yard, he was terribly annoyed.

Who acts: King, table, poultry woman · What happens: be, hear, come, tell, go on · To what, where: table, refrain, 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 (King, table, poultry woman), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 table	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 table	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 table	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 table	cop
6	still	still	ADV	_	8 table	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 table	case
8	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heard	nsubj
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 refrain	det
11	refrain	refrain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heard	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 woman	det
15	poultry	poultry	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 woman	compound
16	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 heard	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 tell	mark
19	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 came	xcomp
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 tell	iobj
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 going	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 going	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 going	aux
24	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 tell	ccomp
25	on	on	ADP	_	24 going	compound:prt
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 yard	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 yard	det
28	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 going	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 annoyed	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 annoyed	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 annoyed	cop
32	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	33 annoyed	advmod
33	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 came	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the King			table	still		tree rules
2	hear	past	table	this refrain					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer refrain=Stimulus
3	come	past	the poultry woman						tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the poultry woman not said here		King				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	go on	past · perfect · progressive						in the yard	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in yard=Location
6	is	past	King					annoyed, terribly property	tree rules

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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