The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 19

‘Hast thou watched faithfully and well the whole day long?’ said the King, when the lad came into his presence in the evening.

Who acts: thou, King, lad · What happens: have, watch, say, come · To what, where: presence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, King, lad), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Hast	punct
2	Hast	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
3	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 watched	nsubj
4	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Hast	ccomp
5	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	_	4 watched	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 well	cc
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 faithfully	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 day	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 day	amod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 watched	obl:unmarked
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 watched	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Hast	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Hast	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 King	det
16	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 came	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 lad	det
20	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 presence	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 presence	nmod:poss
24	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 evening	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 evening	det
27	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present					tree rules
2	watch	past	thou		day	faithfully, long property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the King				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come	past	the lad	lad's presence	evening		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into presence=Initial_Location

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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