The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 81

In the morning the kitchen-maid related what she had seen and heard, and the King said that next Thursday night he himself would watch in the kitchen and see if this were true, and when it had begun to grow dark he went out into the kitchen to the girl.

Who acts: kitchen maid, maid, King, this, kitchen · What happens: relate, see, hear, say, watch, be · To what, where: kitchen · 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 (kitchen maid, maid, King, this), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 related	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 maid	det
5	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 maid	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 kitchen	punct
7	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 related	nsubj
8	related	relate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 seen	obj
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 seen	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 seen	aux
12	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 related	ccomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 heard	cc
14	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 seen	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 King	det
18	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 related	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 watch	mark
21	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 night	amod
22	Thursday	Thursday	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 night	compound
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 watch	obl:unmarked
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 watch	nsubj
25	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	24 he	nmod:unmarked
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 watch	aux
27	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 kitchen	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 kitchen	det
30	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 watch	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 see	cc
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 watch	conj
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 true	mark
34	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 true	nsubj
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 true	cop
36	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 see	ccomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 begun	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 begun	cc
39	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	42 begun	advmod
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 begun	nsubj
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 begun	aux
42	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 related	conj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 grow	mark
44	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 begun	xcomp
45	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 grow	xcomp
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 went	nsubj
47	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 dark	ccomp
48	out	out	ADV	_	47 went	advmod
49	into	into	ADP	_	51 kitchen	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 kitchen	det
51	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 went	obl
52	to	to	ADP	_	54 girl	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 girl	det
54	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 went	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 related	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	relate	past	the kitchen maid		morning		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see	past · perfect	maid				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
3	hear	participle	maid not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	past	the King				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	watch	would	King	the kitchen	night		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in kitchen=Location
6	see	infinitive	King not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is a condition, not said to happen	past	this			true property	tree rules
8	begin	past · perfect	kitchen				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	grow	to-infinitive	kitchen not said here			dark property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	go out	past	King	the kitchen		to the girl; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=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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