The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 82

When the King, who was still at table and laughing at the good trick he had played his creditor, heard him again reclaiming his money, he became livid with rage.

Who acts: King, Drakestail · What happens: be, laugh, play, hear, reclaim, become · To what, where: table, good trick, creditor, Drakestail, money

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, Drakestail), 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	22 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 heard	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 table	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 table	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 table	cop
7	still	still	ADV	_	9 table	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 table	case
9	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 King	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 laughing	cc
11	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 table	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 trick	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 trick	det
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 trick	amod
15	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 laughing	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 played	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 played	aux
18	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 trick	acl:relcl
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 creditor	nmod:poss
20	creditor	creditor	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 played	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 heard	punct
22	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 became	advcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 heard	obj
24	again	again	ADV	_	22 heard	advmod
25	reclaiming	reclaim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 heard	advcl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 money	nmod:poss
27	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 reclaiming	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 heard	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 became	nsubj
30	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	livid	livid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 became	xcomp
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 rage	case
33	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 livid	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the King		table	still		tree rules
2	laugh	gerund	the King not said here		the good trick			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	play	past · perfect	King	King's creditor				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creditor=Theme
4	hear	past	the King	Drakestail		again		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
5	reclaim	gerund	the King not said here	Drakestail's money				vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
6	become	past	Drakestail				livid property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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