The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 53

When a couple of hours had passed, and the King thought they must be quite dead from the heat, he had the doors opened and went in himself to see.

Who acts: King, dishes, doors · What happens: pass, think, be, have, open, go · To what, where: couple, heat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, dishes, doors), 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	7 passed	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 couple	det
3	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 passed	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 hours	case
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 couple	nmod
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 passed	aux
7	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 thought	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 King	det
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 thought	nsubj
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 passed	conj
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 dead	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 dead	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 dead	cop
16	quite	quite	ADV	_	17 dead	advmod
17	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 thought	ccomp
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 heat	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 heat	det
20	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dead	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 thought	ccomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 doors	det
25	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 opened	nsubj
26	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 had	ccomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 went	cc
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 had	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 himself	case
30	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 went	obl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 see	mark
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 went	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass	past · perfect · passive		a couple of hours			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
2	think speech: other	past	the King				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	is	must	dishes = dish		the heat	dead property	tree rules
4	have	past	King				tree rules
5	open	past	the doors				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	go	past	King not said here			in King	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in himself=Location
7	see	to-infinitive	King not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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