The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 100

So the King said he should have these things, but the King was afraid that he had no ship large enough to carry them all.

Who acts: King · What happens: say, have, be, carry · To what, where: things, ship · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (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	So	so	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 have	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 have	aux
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 things	det
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 afraid	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 afraid	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 King	det
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 afraid	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 afraid	cop
15	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	advcl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 had	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 afraid	ccomp
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 ship	det
20	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
21	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ship	amod
22	enough	enough	ADV	_	21 large	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 carry	mark
24	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 large	advcl
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 carry	obj
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 them	nmod:unmarked
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the King			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	should	King	this things		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
3	is	past	the King		afraid property	tree rules
4	have	past	King	no ship		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Patient
5	carry	to-infinitive	King not said here	things = thing		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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