The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 52

When the youth came down again to the King’s palace he asked the King if the Princess should not at last be his, for now no one could say that the sun was not shining into the palace.

Who acts: youth, one, sun · What happens: come down, ask, be, say, not shine · To what, where: palace, King · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (youth, one, sun), 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 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 asked	advcl
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	again	again	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	11 palace	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 King	det
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 palace	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 King	case
11	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 asked	nsubj
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 King	det
15	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 asked	obj
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 last	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Princess	det
18	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 last	nsubj
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 last	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 last	advmod
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 last	case
22	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 asked	ccomp
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 his	cop
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 last	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 say	punct
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 say	mark
27	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 say	advmod
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 one	det
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 say	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 say	aux
31	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 asked	conj
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 shining	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 sun	det
34	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 shining	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 shining	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 shining	advmod
37	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 say	ccomp
38	into	into	ADP	_	40 palace	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 palace	det
40	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 shining	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come down	past	the youth			the King's palace	again	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location
2	ask speech: ask	past	youth		the King				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient
3	is a	infinitive		King					tree rules
4	say speech: assert	could	no one				now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not shine	past · progressive	the sun			the palace			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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