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The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 1

Meanwhile King Lindorm had come home from the war, and the first question he asked when he entered the palace was about the queen and the whelps.

Who acts: Meanwhile, first question · What happens: come, ask, enter, be · To what, where: war, first question, palace · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Meanwhile, first question), 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

nsubjflatflatauxadvmodcasedetoblpunctccdetamodnsubjnsubjacl:relcladvmodnsubjccompdetobjcopcasedetparataxisccdetconjpunctrootMeanwhilePROPNKingPROPNLindormPROPNhadAUXcomeVERBhomeADVfromADPtheDETwarNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETfirstADJquestionNOUNhePRONaskedVERBwhenADVhePRONenteredVERBtheDETpalaceNOUNwasAUXaboutADPtheDETqueenNOUNandCCONJtheDETwhelpsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1MeanwhileMeanwhilePROPNNumber=Sing5 comensubj
2KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing1 Meanwhileflat
3LindormLindormPROPNNumber=Sing1 Meanwhileflat
4hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 comeaux
5comecomeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Partrootroot
6homehomeADV_5 comeadvmod
7fromfromADP_9 warcase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 wardet
9warwarNOUNNumber=Sing5 comeobl
10,,PUNCT_25 queenpunct
11andandCCONJ_25 queencc
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 questiondet
13firstfirstADJDegree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord14 questionamod
14questionquestionNOUNNumber=Sing25 queennsubj
15hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 askednsubj
16askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 questionacl:relcl
17whenwhenADVPronType=Int19 enteredadvmod
18hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 enterednsubj
19enteredenterVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 askedccomp
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 palacedet
21palacepalaceNOUNNumber=Sing19 enteredobj
22wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 queencop
23aboutaboutADP_25 queencase
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 queendet
25queenqueenNOUNNumber=Sing5 comeparataxis
26andandCCONJ_28 whelpscc
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 whelpsdet
28whelpswhelpNOUNNumber=Plur25 queenconj
29..PUNCT_5 comepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1comepast · perfectMeanwhilethe warhome propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from war=Initial_Location
2ask speech: askpastMeanwhilethe first question not said herevn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent question=Recipient clause=Topic
3enterpastMeanwhilethe palacevn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Destination
4ispastthe first questionabout the queen and the whelpstree rules

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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