The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 23

When the King had finished his story, Szabo, his eldest son, said to him: ‘Forgive me, father, if I say I think you are mistaken.

Who acts: King, I · What happens: finish, say, forgive, think · To what, where: story, King, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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, I), 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	5 finished	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 finished	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 finished	aux
5	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 said	ccomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 story	nmod:poss
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finished	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Szabo	punct
9	Szabo	Szabo	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 story	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 son	punct
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 son	nmod:poss
12	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 son	amod
13	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Szabo	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 finished	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	obl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 Forgive	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 Forgive	punct
20	Forgive	forgive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 Forgive	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 father	punct
23	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Forgive	vocative
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 say	punct
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 say	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 say	nsubj
27	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 Forgive	parataxis
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 think	nsubj
29	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 say	ccomp
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 mistaken	nsubj
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 mistaken	aux:pass
32	mistaken	mistaken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 think	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect	the King	King's story			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector story=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past			King		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	forgive	infinitive		me		father vocative	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	I				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	think speech: other	present	I				vn focus-87.1-1 «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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