The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 61
When King Pippin heard that he begged his brother’s pardon, and they were reconciled at once and became good friends.
Who acts: King, brother · What happens: hear, beg, reconcile, become, pardon · To what, where: pardon, others, good friends · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, brother), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | Pippin | Pippin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | flat |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 begged | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 begged | nsubj |
| 7 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | ccomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pardon | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 brother | case |
| 11 | pardon | pardon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 begged | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 reconciled | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 reconciled | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 reconciled | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 reconciled | aux:pass |
| 16 | reconciled | reconcile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 heard | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 once | case |
| 18 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 reconciled | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 became | cc |
| 20 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 reconciled | conj |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 friends | amod |
| 22 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 became | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | King | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | King | King's brother's pardon | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | reconcile | past · passive | others = other | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | become | past | good friends | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | pardon | King's brother | nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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