The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 79
When the King came home and wished to speak to his wife the woman called out:
Who acts: King · What happens: come, wish, speak, call out · To what, where: woman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wished | cc |
| 7 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 speak | mark |
| 9 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wished | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 wife | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 speak | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wife | appos |
| 15 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 woman | acl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 called | compound:prt |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the King | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wish | past | the King not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive | the King not said here | to King's wife | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to wife=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | call out speech: assert | participle | the woman not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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