The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 10

When the king was told that there was another man with a basket of figs he cried out, ‘Oh, have him in, have him in!

Who acts: man, king · What happens: tell, be, cry out, have, have in · To what, where: king, figs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, 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	SCONJ	_	5 told	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	aux:pass
5	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 was	mark
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	ccomp
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 was	nsubj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 basket	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 basket	det
13	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 man	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 figs	case
15	figs	fig	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 basket	nmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 cried	nsubj
17	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 figs	acl:relcl
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 cried	compound:prt
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 have	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 have	punct
21	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	23 have	discourse
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Oh	punct
23	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 told	parataxis
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 have	obj
25	in	in	ADV	_	23 have	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 have	punct
27	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 have	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 have	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	27 have	compound:prt
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		the king		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	be	past	another man with a basket of figs		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cry out speech: express	past	king	figs not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fig=Topic
4	have	present		king		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	have in	present		king		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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