The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 74

After this the king’s men began to talk about the bird Grip, and how strange it was that he would not sing, however well he was attended to.

Who acts: men, steed · What happens: begin, talk, not be, attend · To what, where: man

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 (men, steed), 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	After	after	ADP	_	6 men	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 king	det
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 men	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 king	case
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 began	nsubj
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 talk	mark
9	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	about	about	ADP	_	13 Grip	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Grip	det
12	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Grip	compound
13	Grip	grip	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 talk	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 strange	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 strange	cc
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 strange	advmod
17	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 began	parataxis
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sing	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sing	cop
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 sing	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sing	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 sing	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 sing	advmod
24	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 strange	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 attended	punct
26	however	however	ADV	_	30 attended	advmod
27	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 attended	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 attended	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 attended	aux:pass
30	attended	attend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 began	parataxis
31	to	to	ADP	_	30 attended	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	this king's men			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	talk	to-infinitive	this king's men not said here		about the bird Grip	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about grip=Topic
3	not is	would · past	steed		sing property	tree rules
4	attend	past · passive		man	however, well property	vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Goal

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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