The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 12

And he made haste back, and told the king.

Who acts: maiden · What happens: haste back, tell · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 haste	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 haste	nsubj
3	made	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 haste	aux
4	haste	haste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 haste	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 told	cc
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 haste	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 haste	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	haste back	may	maiden						tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past			the king				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient

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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