The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 64

But when the time came near for King Lindorm to return home from the war the old retainer grew frightened because he had not obeyed his orders.

Who acts: time, old retainer, king · What happens: come, return, grow, frighten, not obey, order · To what, where: war, orders

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 (time, old retainer, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 return	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 return	advcl
6	near	near	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 Lindorm	case
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Lindorm	compound
9	Lindorm	Lindorm	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 return	mark
11	return	return	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	home	home	ADV	_	11 return	advmod
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 war	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 war	det
15	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 return	obl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 retainer	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 retainer	amod
18	retainer	retainer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 grew	nsubj
19	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 war	acl:relcl
20	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 grew	xcomp
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 obeyed	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 obeyed	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 obeyed	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 obeyed	advmod
25	obeyed	obey	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 frightened	advcl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 orders	nmod:poss
27	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 obeyed	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 return	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the time			for King Lindorm; near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	return	to-infinitive			the war	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from war=Initial_Location
3	grow	past	the old retainer	the war not said here			tree rules
4	frighten	participle	the old retainer not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	not obey	past · perfect	king	king's orders			vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
6	order		king				nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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