The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 34

As she was about to answer Prince Alphege, who had heard all, came forward and said, ‘It is from me you must ask an explanation, brother.’

Who acts: door, Alphege, explanation, me · What happens: be, answer, hear, come forward, say, ask · To what, where: Alphege, all, explanation · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, Alphege, explanation, me), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 about	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 about	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 about	cop
4	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 came	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 answer	mark
6	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 about	xcomp
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Alphege	nmod:desc
8	Alphege	Alphege	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 answer	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 heard	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 heard	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 heard	aux
12	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 Alphege	acl:relcl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 heard	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 about	punct
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	forward	forward	ADV	_	15 came	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 came	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ask	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 ask	punct
21	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 me	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 me	cop
23	from	from	ADP	_	24 me	case
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 ask	nsubj
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 ask	nsubj
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 ask	aux
27	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 explanation	det
29	explanation	explanation	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ask	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 brother	punct
31	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 explanation	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 ask	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	27 ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	door			about property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	to-infinitive	door not said here		Alphege Prince		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent alphege=Eventuality
3	hear	past · perfect	Alphege Prince	all			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus
4	come forward	past				forward property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	is	present	explanation			from me	tree rules
7	ask speech: ask	must	me	a explanation and brother			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent explanation=Recipient

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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