The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 18

One day the King, more sorrowful than usual, was walking sadly along the sea-shore, when after a long silence the unknown Prince, who was his only companion, suddenly spoke.

Who acts: long silence · What happens: walk, be, speak · To what, where: sea shore, only companion · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long silence), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 walking	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 day	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sorrowful	punct
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 sorrowful	advmod
7	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 King	amod
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 usual	case
9	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sorrowful	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 walking	aux
12	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	12 walking	advmod
14	along	along	ADP	_	18 shore	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 shore	det
16	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shore	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 sea	punct
18	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 walking	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 spoke	punct
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	36 spoke	advmod
21	after	after	ADP	_	24 silence	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 silence	det
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 silence	amod
24	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 spoke	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Prince	det
26	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Prince	amod
27	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 silence	appos
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 companion	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 companion	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 companion	cop
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 companion	nmod:poss
32	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 companion	amod
33	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 silence	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 silence	punct
35	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	36 spoke	advmod
36	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 walking	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 walking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past · progressive			the sea shore	day	sadly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along shore=Trajectory
2	is a	past	a long silence and King's only companion	King's only companion				tree rules
3	speak speech: other	past				after a long silence and King's only companion	suddenly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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