The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 7

When the king heard this his sorrow was lessened, and he said that he would wander out into the forest and search for his wife and children.

Who acts: king · What happens: hear, lessen, say, wander out, search, sorrow · To what, where: sorrow, forest · 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 (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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 sorrow	det
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sorrow	nmod:poss
7	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lessened	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lessened	aux:pass
9	lessened	lessen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 heard	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 wander	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wander	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 wander	aux
17	wander	wander	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
18	out	out	ADV	_	17 wander	advmod
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 forest	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 forest	det
21	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wander	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 search	cc
23	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 wander	conj
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 wife	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 wife	nmod:poss
26	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 search	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 children	cc
28	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 wife	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the king				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	lessen	past · passive		king's sorrow			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	king				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	wander out	would	king		the forest	out property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into forest=Destination
5	search	infinitive	king not said here			for king's wife and children	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for wife=Theme
6	sorrow		king				nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: 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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