The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 67

More than once it happened that when the king was in a bad temper, he let it out on the poor queen, and said that here they were now, getting old, and neither they nor the kingdom had an heir, and it was all her fault.

Who acts: it, king, story, heir · What happens: happen, be, let out, say, get, have · To what, where: bad temper, temper, heir, fault · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, king, story, heir), 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	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 let	advmod
2	than	than	SCONJ	_	5 happened	mark
3	once	once	SCONJ	_	5 happened	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 happened	nsubj
5	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 More	advcl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 temper	mark
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 temper	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 temper	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 temper	cop
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 temper	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 temper	det
13	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 temper	amod
14	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happened	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 More	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 let	nsubj
17	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 let	obj
19	out	out	ADP	_	17 let	compound:prt
20	on	on	ADP	_	23 queen	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 queen	det
22	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 queen	amod
23	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 let	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 said	cc
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 let	conj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 here	mark
28	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 said	ccomp
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 getting	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 getting	aux
31	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 getting	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 getting	punct
33	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 said	ccomp
34	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 getting	xcomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 had	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 had	cc
37	neither	neither	ADV	_	42 had	advmod
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 had	nsubj
39	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	41 kingdom	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 kingdom	det
41	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 they	conj
42	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 let	conj
43	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 heir	det
44	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 had	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 fault	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 fault	cc
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 fault	nsubj
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 fault	cop
49	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	51 fault	det:predet
50	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 fault	nmod:poss
51	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 had	parataxis
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	it					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the king		a bad temper			tree rules
3	let out	past	story	temper			on the poor queen	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme on queen=Asset
4	say speech: assert	past	story not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	get	past · progressive	king			now	old property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	have	past	king	a heir			neither property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heir=Patient
7	is a	past	heir	queen's fault				tree 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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