The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 56

When the king received. this letter he was greatly distressed, but he remembered how he himself had lived for twenty years as a lindorm, and had been freed from the spell by his young queen.

Who acts: king, letter, young queen · What happens: receive, distress, remember, live, free · To what, where: letter, spell

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, letter, young queen), 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	4 received	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 received	nsubj
4	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 remembered	advcl
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 received	punct
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 letter	det
7	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 received	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 distressed	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 distressed	aux:pass
10	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	11 distressed	advmod
11	distressed	distress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 letter	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 remembered	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 remembered	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 remembered	nsubj
15	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 lived	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lived	nsubj
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	17 he	nmod:unmarked
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 lived	aux
20	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 remembered	advcl
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 years	case
22	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 years	nummod
23	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 lived	obl
24	as	as	ADP	_	26 lindorm	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 lindorm	det
26	lindorm	lindorm	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lived	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 freed	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 freed	cc
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 freed	aux
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 freed	aux:pass
31	freed	free	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 remembered	parataxis
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 spell	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 spell	det
34	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 freed	obl
35	by	by	ADP	_	38 queen	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 queen	nmod:poss
37	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 queen	amod
38	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 freed	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	receive	past	the king	this letter				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme
2	distress	past · passive		letter			greatly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	remember	past	letter					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	live	past · perfect	letter			year	as a lindorm	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	free	past · perfect · passive	letter's young queen		the spell			vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer

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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