The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 7

The sons, who could not understand why he did this, asked him the reason of his dejection, and the King told them as follows:

Who acts: sons, King · What happens: not understand, do, ask, tell, follow, deject · To what, where: this, reason, King, sons · 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 (sons, King), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sons	det
2	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 asked	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 understand	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 understand	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 understand	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 understand	advmod
7	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sons	parataxis
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 did	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 did	nsubj
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 understand	advcl
11	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 did	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sons	punct
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 asked	iobj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 reason	det
16	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asked	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 dejection	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 dejection	nmod:poss
19	dejection	dejection	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 reason	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 told	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 told	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 King	det
23	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 told	nsubj
24	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 asked	parataxis
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 told	iobj
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 follows	mark
27	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 told	ccomp
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not understand	could	the sons			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	do	past	King	this		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
3	ask speech: ask	past	the sons	the reason of King's dejection	King	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	past	the King		sons = son	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
5	follow	present				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	deject		King			nom dejection «state 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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