The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 134

The King became ill, and there was no doctor who could cure him till Farmer Weatherbeard arrived, and he demanded the ring which was on the Princess’s finger as a reward.

Who acts: King, doctor, Farmer, ring · What happens: become, be, cure, arrive, demand · To what, where: doctor, ring, finger

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, doctor, Farmer, ring), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 became	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 was	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 was	cc
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 became	parataxis
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 doctor	det
10	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 was	nsubj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 cure	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 cure	aux
13	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 doctor	acl:relcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cure	obj
15	till	till	SCONJ	_	18 arrived	mark
16	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 arrived	nsubj
17	Weatherbeard	Weatherbeard	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Farmer	flat
18	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 cure	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 demanded	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 demanded	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 demanded	nsubj
22	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 became	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ring	det
24	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 demanded	obj
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 finger	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 finger	cop
27	on	on	ADP	_	31 finger	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Princess	det
29	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 finger	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 Princess	case
31	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ring	acl:relcl
32	as	as	ADP	_	34 reward	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 reward	det
34	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 demanded	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past	the King			ill property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	be	past	no doctor		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cure	could	no doctor	doctor			vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer he=Source
4	arrive	past	Farmer				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	demand speech: request	past	Farmer	the ring		as a reward	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ring=Precondition
6	is	past	the ring		the Princess's finger		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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