The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 123

When the king arrived at Diaphana’s Court he found a magnificent reception awaiting him, for, though they pretended not to know who he was, secrets like this are never hidden.

Who acts: king, magnificent reception, kingdoms · What happens: arrive, find, await, pretend, not know, not hide · To what, where: Court, magnificent reception, king, secrets · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, magnificent reception, kingdoms), 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	SCONJ	_	4 arrived	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arrived	nsubj
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 found	advcl
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 Court	case
6	Diaphana	Diaphana	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Court	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 Diaphana	case
8	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arrived	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 found	nsubj
10	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 reception	det
12	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 reception	amod
13	reception	reception	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	obj
14	awaiting	await	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 reception	acl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 awaiting	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 know	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 know	mark
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pretended	punct
19	though	though	SCONJ	_	21 pretended	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 pretended	nsubj
21	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 know	advcl
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 know	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 know	mark
24	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 found	conj
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 know	obj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 was	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 who	acl:relcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 secrets	punct
29	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 hidden	nsubj:pass
30	like	like	ADP	_	31 this	case
31	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 secrets	nmod
32	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 hidden	aux:pass
33	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	34 hidden	advmod
34	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 know	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	arrive	past	the king		Diaphana's Court	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past	king	a magnificent reception		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reception=Topic
3	await	gerund	a magnificent reception not said here	king		tree rules
4	pretend	past	kingdoms = kingdom			tree rules
5	not know	to-infinitive	king not said here			tree rules
6	not hide	present · passive		secrets like this		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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