The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 108

The King asked where he had come from, but the boy said he did not know, nor yet could he tell them how he had got there, but he begged very earnestly and prettily for a place in the King’s palace.

Who acts: King, boy · What happens: ask, come, say, not know, tell, get · To what, where: persons · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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, boy), 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 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 come	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 come	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
7	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 asked	ccomp
8	from	from	ADP	_	7 come	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boy	det
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	parataxis
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 know	nsubj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 know	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 know	advmod
17	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tell	punct
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	23 tell	cc
20	yet	yet	ADV	_	23 tell	advmod
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 tell	aux
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tell	nsubj
23	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asked	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tell	iobj
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 got	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 got	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 got	aux
28	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 tell	advcl
29	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 got	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 begged	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 begged	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 begged	nsubj
33	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	conj
34	very	very	ADV	_	35 earnestly	advmod
35	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	_	33 begged	advmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 prettily	cc
37	prettily	prettily	ADV	_	35 earnestly	conj
38	for	for	ADP	_	40 place	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 place	det
40	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 begged	obl
41	in	in	ADP	_	45 palace	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 King	det
43	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 palace	nmod:poss
44	’s	's	PART	_	43 King	case
45	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 place	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the King					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	past · perfect	King					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the boy					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not know	past · do-support	King					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	tell speech: assert	could	King	persons = person		yet		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
6	get	past · perfect	King		there			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
7	beg speech: request	past	King				for a place in the King's palace; earnestly property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for place=Topic

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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