The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 87

At last there came to the palace an old woman, who told him that in the whole world there was only one thing that could give him back his sight, and that was to get the bird Grip; his song would open the King’s eyes.

Who acts: old woman, one thing, that, song, king · What happens: come, tell, give back, be, open, sight · To what, where: last, king, sight, eyes · 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 (old woman, one thing, that, song), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	obl
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 came	expl
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 palace	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 palace	det
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 woman	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 woman	amod
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 palace	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 told	nsubj
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 woman	acl:relcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 world	mark
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 world	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 world	det
18	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 world	amod
19	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	ccomp
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 was	expl
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 world	acl:relcl
22	only	only	ADV	_	23 one	advmod
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 thing	nummod
24	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 was	nsubj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 give	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 give	aux
27	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 thing	acl:relcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 give	iobj
29	back	back	ADP	_	27 give	compound:prt
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 sight	nmod:poss
31	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 give	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 get	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 get	cc
34	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 get	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 get	cop
36	to	to	PART	_	37 get	mark
37	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 thing	parataxis
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Grip	det
39	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 Grip	compound
40	Grip	grip	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 get	obj
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 open	punct
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 song	nmod:poss
43	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 open	nsubj
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 open	aux
45	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 get	parataxis
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 King	det
47	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 eyes	nmod:poss
48	’s	's	PART	_	47 King	case
49	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 open	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past				last; there	to the palace	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	a old woman		king			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	give back	could	one thing	king's sight	king			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient sight=Theme
4	is	past	that				get property	tree rules
5	open	would	king's song	the King's eyes				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme
6	sight		king					nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
7	sing		king					nom song «communication intransitive»: 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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