The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 88

When the king came home and heard that a daughter had been born to him, he was of course very pleased and happy, and wanted to see her at once.

Who acts: king, child · What happens: come, hear, bear, be, want, see · To what, where: daughter, child, woman

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 (king, child), 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	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 pleased	advcl
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 heard	cc
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 born	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 daughter	det
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 born	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 born	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 born	aux:pass
13	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 heard	advcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 born	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 pleased	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 pleased	cop
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 course	case
20	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 was	obl
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 pleased	advmod
22	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 happy	cc
24	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 pleased	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wanted	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 wanted	cc
27	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 pleased	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 see	mark
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 wanted	xcomp
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 see	obj
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 once	case
32	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	29 see	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the king			home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hear	past	the king not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	bear	past · perfect · passive		a daughter	child		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	is	past	child			pleased property	tree rules
5	be		child not said here				tree rules
6	want	past	child not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	child not said here	woman			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=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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