The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 25
When the king learned this he said he would forgive his offence if he would go to the next kingdom and steal the horse with the four golden shoes.
Who acts: king, prince · What happens: learn, say, forgive, go, steal, offend · To what, where: this, offence, next kingdom, horse · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, prince), 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 | 4 learned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 learned | nsubj |
| 4 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 learned | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 forgive | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 forgive | aux |
| 10 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 offence | nmod:poss |
| 12 | offence | offence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 forgive | obj |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 go | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 go | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 go | aux |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 forgive | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 kingdom | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 kingdom | det |
| 19 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 kingdom | amod |
| 20 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 go | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 steal | cc |
| 22 | steal | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 horse | det |
| 24 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 steal | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 shoes | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 shoes | det |
| 27 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 shoes | nummod |
| 28 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 shoes | amod |
| 29 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 steal | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | the king | this | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | forgive | would | king | prince's offence | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offence=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go a condition, not said to happen | would | prince | the next kingdom | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to kingdom=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | steal | present | king not said here | the horse | with the four golden shoes | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=Theme | |||
| 6 | offend | prince | nom offence «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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