The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 57

He found her spinning in an underground chamber, but quite ready to tell him all he wanted to know.

Who acts: king, Minette · What happens: find, spin, tell, want, know · To what, where: Minette, underground chamber, all, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Minette), 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	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	obj
4	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 found	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 chamber	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 chamber	det
7	underground	underground	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 chamber	amod
8	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spinning	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ready	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 ready	cc
11	quite	quite	ADV	_	12 ready	advmod
12	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 found	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 tell	mark
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 ready	xcomp
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tell	iobj
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 tell	obj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wanted	nsubj
18	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 all	acl:relcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 know	mark
20	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 wanted	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	find	past	king	Minette			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Attribute clause=Theme
2	spin	gerund	Minette not said here			a underground chamber	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in chamber=Trajectory
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Minette not said here	all	king		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient all=Topic
4	want	past	king				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	king not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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