The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 63

And as the King heard her words he began to suspect that he had been deceived, and he called out to the servants, ‘Catch that duck, and bring it here.’

Who acts: King, Queen · What happens: hear, begin, suspect, deceive, call out, bring · To what, where: words, King, Catch, servants · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Queen), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 heard	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 heard	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 words	nmod:poss
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heard	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 began	nsubj
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 words	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 suspect	mark
11	suspect	suspect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 deceived	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 deceived	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 deceived	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 deceived	aux:pass
16	deceived	deceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 suspect	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 called	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 called	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 called	nsubj
20	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 called	compound:prt
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 servants	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 servants	det
24	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 called	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Catch	punct
26	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 Catch	punct
27	Catch	catch	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 called	xcomp
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 duck	det
29	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Catch	nmod:unmarked
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bring	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 bring	cc
32	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 heard	ccomp
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 bring	obj
34	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 bring	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 bring	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	32 bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	hear	past	the King	Queen's words			tree rules
2	begin	past	King	Queen's words not said here			tree rules
3	suspect	to-infinitive	King not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	deceive	past · perfect · passive		King			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	call out speech: assert	past	King	Catch that duck	the servants		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to servant=Recipient
6	bring	infinitive		Catch		here	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	word		Queen				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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