The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 42

So the King called to him again, but the youth was praying so fervently that he did not hear him this time either.

Who acts: King, youth · What happens: call, pray, not hear · To what, where: youth, King · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, youth), 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 called	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 called	nsubj
4	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	obl
7	again	again	ADV	_	4 called	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 praying	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 praying	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 youth	det
11	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 praying	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 praying	aux
13	praying	pray	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 called	advcl
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 fervently	advmod
15	fervently	fervently	ADV	_	13 praying	advmod
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 hear	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 hear	nsubj
18	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 hear	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 hear	advmod
20	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 praying	advcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 hear	obj
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 time	det
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hear	obl:unmarked
24	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	20 hear	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	the King		youth	again		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
2	pray	past · progressive	the youth				fervently property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	not hear	past · do-support	youth	King		time	either property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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