The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 118

He soon found the ruler, who looked at the letter, and said to him, ‘Wait a little while i write the answer;’ but the man was soo tired with his quick walk that he went sound asleep and forgot all about his errand.

Who acts: king, ruler, i, man · What happens: find, look, say, wait, write, be · To what, where: ruler, king, little, answer, errand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, ruler, i, man), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 found	advmod
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ruler	det
5	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 looked	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 looked	nsubj
8	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ruler	acl:relcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 letter	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 letter	det
11	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looked	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 found	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Wait	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 Wait	punct
19	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 little	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Wait	obj
22	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 write	mark
23	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 write	nsubj
24	write	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 Wait	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 answer	det
26	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 write	obj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 write	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 Wait	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 tired	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 man	det
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 tired	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 tired	cop
33	soo	so	ADV	_	34 tired	advmod
34	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 found	conj
35	with	with	ADP	_	38 walk	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 walk	nmod:poss
37	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 walk	amod
38	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 tired	obl
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 went	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 went	nsubj
41	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 tired	advcl
42	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 went	xcomp
43	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 sound	xcomp
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 forgot	cc
45	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 went	conj
46	all	all	ADV	_	49 errand	advmod
47	about	about	ADP	_	49 errand	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 errand	nmod:poss
49	errand	errand	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 forgot	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	find	past	king	the ruler		soon property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ruler=Topic
2	look	past	the ruler			at the letter	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at letter=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	king not said here		king		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
4	wait	infinitive		a little			tree rules
5	write	present	i	the answer			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme
6	is	past	the man			with king's quick walk; tired property	tree rules
7	go	past	man				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	sound	infinitive	man not said here			asleep property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
9	forget	past	man not said here	king's errand			tree rules
10	walk		king				nom walk «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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