The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 14

At this juncture the guards, who were in great fear that they would be found out, sent to tell the King that his son was dead, which annoyed him very much.

Who acts: guards, son · What happens: be, find out, send, tell · To what, where: great fear, ladies, guards, King · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guards, son), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 juncture	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 juncture	det
3	juncture	juncture	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 guards	det
5	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 juncture	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fear	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 fear	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fear	cop
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 fear	case
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fear	amod
11	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 guards	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 found	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 found	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 found	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 found	aux:pass
16	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 fear	acl
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 found	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sent	punct
19	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 guards	acl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 tell	mark
21	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 sent	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 King	det
23	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 tell	obj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 dead	mark
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 son	nmod:poss
26	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dead	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 dead	cop
28	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tell	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 annoyed	punct
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 annoyed	nsubj
31	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 dead	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 annoyed	nsubj
33	very	very	ADV	_	34 much	advmod
34	much	much	ADV	_	31 annoyed	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 juncture	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the guards and great fear			great fear		tree rules
2	find out	would · passive		ladies = lady				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	send	participle		the guards and great fear not said here				tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the guards and great fear not said here		the King			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient
5	is	past	King's son				dead property	tree rules
6	be							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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