The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 137
When the King was informed of this he fell into a rage, and said that he would have the ring, let her have inherited it from whom she might.
Who acts: King · What happens: inform, fall, say, let, inherit · To what, where: King, rage, Princess, ring · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | _ | 5 informed | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 informed | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 informed | aux:pass |
| 5 | informed | inform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 fell | advcl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 informed | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fell | nsubj |
| 9 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 rage | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 rage | det |
| 12 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fell | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fell | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 have | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 have | aux |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 inherited | aux |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ring | det |
| 21 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 let | punct |
| 23 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 inherited | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 let | obj |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 inherited | aux |
| 26 | inherited | inherit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 said | ccomp |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 inherited | obj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 whom | case |
| 29 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 inherited | obl |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 might | nsubj |
| 31 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 whom | acl:relcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inform speech: other | past · passive | the King | of this | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: subject=Recipient of this=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | King | into a rage result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into rage=Result | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | King not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | Princess | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||||
| 5 | inherit | infinitive · perfect · passive | ring | 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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