The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 28

And the slave was called upon to tell how he had slain the monster, and when he had ended the king declared that he should have the princess to wife.

Who acts: slave, king · What happens: call, tell, slay, end, declare, have · To what, where: slave, monster, princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slave, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 called	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 slave	det
3	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 called	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 called	aux:pass
5	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	8 tell	mark
7	to	to	PART	_	8 tell	mark
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 called	advcl
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 slain	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 slain	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 slain	aux
12	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 tell	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 monster	det
14	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 slain	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 declared	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 declared	cc
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 ended	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ended	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 ended	aux
20	ended	end	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 declared	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 king	det
22	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 declared	nsubj
23	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 called	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 have	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 have	nsubj
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 have	aux
27	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 declared	ccomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 princess	det
29	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 have	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 wife	mark
31	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 princess	acl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	call	past · passive		the slave	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	slay	past · perfect	slave	the monster	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monster=Patient
4	end	past · perfect	slave		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	declare speech: other	past	the king		vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	have	should	king	the princess	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient

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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