The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 124

When the king and queen heard this for the third time they could think of no better plan than to invite the lindorm to the palace, and they should find him a mate.

Who acts: king, lindorm · What happens: hear, think, invite, find · To what, where: this, third time, lindorm, king

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, lindorm), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	6 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 queen	cc
5	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 king	conj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 heard	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 time	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 time	det
10	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obl
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 think	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 think	aux
14	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 time	acl:relcl
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 plan	case
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 plan	det
17	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 plan	amod
18	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 think	obl
19	than	than	SCONJ	_	21 invite	mark
20	to	to	PART	_	21 invite	mark
21	invite	invite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 plan	acl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 lindorm	det
23	lindorm	lindorm	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 invite	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 palace	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 palace	det
26	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 invite	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 find	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 find	cc
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 find	nsubj
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 find	aux
31	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 heard	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 find	obj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 mate	det
34	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 find	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the king and queen	this	time		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	think speech: other	could	lindorm	the third time not said here		of no better plan	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot time=Theme
3	invite	to-infinitive	lindorm not said here	the lindorm		to the palace	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lindorm=Recipient
4	find	should	lindorm	king			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme mate=Attribute

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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