The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 88

When the king’s eldest son heard this he offered to bring the bird Grip, which was kept in a cage by a king in another country, and carefully guarded as his greatest treasure.

Who acts: eldest son, son, king · What happens: hear, offer, bring, keep, guard, treasure · To what, where: this, bird Grip, cage

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 (eldest son, son, king), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 son	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 king	case
5	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 son	amod
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 offered	advcl
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 heard	obj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 offered	nsubj
10	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 bring	mark
12	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 offered	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Grip	det
14	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Grip	compound
15	Grip	Grip	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 bring	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 kept	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 kept	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 kept	aux:pass
19	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 Grip	acl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 cage	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 cage	det
22	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 kept	obl
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 king	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 king	det
25	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 kept	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 country	case
27	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	28 country	det
28	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 kept	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 guarded	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 guarded	cc
31	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	32 guarded	advmod
32	guarded	guard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 offered	conj
33	as	as	ADP	_	36 treasure	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 treasure	nmod:poss
35	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	36 treasure	amod
36	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 guarded	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 offered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the king's eldest son	this				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	offer	past	son					tree rules
3	bring not said to happen	to-infinitive	son not said here		the bird Grip			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument grip=Destination
4	keep	past · passive	a king	the bird Grip		a cage	in another country	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in cage=Location
5	guard	participle	son not said here				as king's greatest treasure; carefully property	vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
6	treasure		king					nom treasure «possession 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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