The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 7

The King had scarce time, with tears in his eyes, to assure her she should be obeyed in everything, when she, turning herself in her bed, with a smile gave up the ghost.

Who acts: King, woman, smile · What happens: have, assure, obey, turn, give up · To what, where: woman, everything, ghost

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, woman, smile), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	scarce	scarce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tears	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 tears	case
8	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 eyes	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 eyes	nmod:poss
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tears	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 assure	punct
13	to	to	PART	_	14 assure	mark
14	assure	assure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	conj
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 assure	obj
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 obeyed	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 obeyed	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 obeyed	aux:pass
19	obeyed	obey	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 assure	parataxis
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 everything	case
21	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	19 obeyed	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 turning	punct
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 turning	advmod
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 turning	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 turning	punct
26	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 obeyed	advcl
27	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 turning	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 bed	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 bed	nmod:poss
30	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 turning	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 gave	punct
32	with	with	SCONJ	_	35 gave	mark
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 smile	det
34	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 gave	nsubj
35	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 obeyed	conj
36	up	up	ADP	_	35 gave	compound:prt
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 ghost	det
38	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 gave	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the King				time	with tears in Neglect's eyes	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	assure	to-infinitive	the King not said here		woman				vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	obey	should · passive		woman		everything			vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	turn	gerund	woman	woman				in woman's bed	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent herself=Patient in bed=Topic
5	give up	past	a smile	the ghost					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ghost=Source

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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