The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 100

But he answered that now, when he had found them, his next task was to get the bird Grip, for which his blind father was longing, and so he had not a single hour to spare with them in the inn.

Who acts: king, next task, blind father · What happens: answer, find, be, long, not hour, spare · To what, where: guests, inn · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, next task, blind father), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 answered	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 found	mark
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 found	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 now	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 found	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 found	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 found	aux
10	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 get	advcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 found	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 found	punct
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 task	nmod:poss
14	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 task	amod
15	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 get	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 get	cop
17	to	to	PART	_	18 get	mark
18	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 answered	ccomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Grip	det
20	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Grip	compound
21	Grip	grip	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 get	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 longing	punct
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 longing	obl
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 father	nmod:poss
26	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 father	amod
27	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 longing	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 longing	aux
29	longing	long	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 get	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 hour	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 hour	cc
32	so	so	ADV	_	38 hour	advmod
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 hour	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 hour	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 hour	advmod
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 hour	det
37	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 hour	amod
38	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 answered	obl:unmarked
39	to	to	PART	_	40 spare	mark
40	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 hour	acl
41	with	with	ADP	_	42 them	case
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 spare	obl
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 inn	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 inn	det
45	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 spare	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	king					tree rules
2	find	past · perfect	king	guests = guest		now		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
3	is	past	king's next task				get property	tree rules
4	long	past · progressive	king's blind father					vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for which=Theme
5	not hour	past	king					tree rules
6	spare	to-infinitive	king not said here		the inn		with guests = guest	vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent
7	task		king					nom task «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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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