The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 78

When the king went home he told such stories of what he had seen that his wife and daughter declared that they must go and see them too.

Who acts: king, wife · What happens: go, tell, see, declare · To what, where: such stories, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, wife), 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 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	advcl
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	nsubj
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stories	amod
9	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 told	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 what	case
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 stories	nmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 seen	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 seen	aux
14	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 what	acl:relcl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 declared	mark
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 wife	nmod:poss
17	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 declared	nsubj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 daughter	cc
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wife	conj
20	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 seen	advcl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 go	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 go	nsubj
23	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 go	aux
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 declared	ccomp
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 see	cc
26	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 go	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 see	obj
28	too	too	ADV	_	26 see	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	the king		home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	king	such stories		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
3	see	past · perfect	king			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	declare speech: other	past	king's wife and daughter			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	go	must	wife			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	see	infinitive	wife not said here	wife		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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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