The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 104

The King listened to the end of the old woman’s strange request, but every moment his face grew blacker, and his features sterner; till all at once he thought to himself, ‘Is it worth while that I, the King, should be angry with this poor old fool?’

Who acts: King, moment, I, old woman · What happens: listen, grow, think, be, request, feature · To what, where: King · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, moment, I, old woman), 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 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 listened	nsubj
3	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 end	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 end	det
6	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 listened	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	13 request	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woman	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 woman	amod
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 request	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 woman	case
12	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 request	amod
13	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 end	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 grew	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 grew	cc
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 moment	det
17	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 grew	nsubj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 face	nmod:poss
19	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 grew	nsubj
20	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 listened	parataxis
21	blacker	black	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 grew	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sterner	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sterner	cc
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 features	nmod:poss
25	features	feature	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sterner	nsubj
26	sterner	stern	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 blacker	conj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 thought	punct
28	till	till	SCONJ	_	31 once	mark
29	all	all	ADV	_	31 once	advmod
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 once	case
31	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	33 thought	advmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 thought	nsubj
33	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 grew	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 himself	case
35	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 thought	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 worth	punct
37	‘	'	PUNCT	_	40 worth	punct
38	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 worth	cop
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 worth	expl
40	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 thought	ccomp
41	while	while	SCONJ	_	42 that	mark
42	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 worth	obj
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 angry	nsubj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 King	punct
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 King	det
46	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 I	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 I	punct
48	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 angry	aux
49	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	50 angry	cop
50	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 worth	parataxis
51	with	with	ADP	_	55 fool	case
52	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	55 fool	nsubj
53	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 fool	amod
54	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 fool	amod
55	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 angry	obl
56	?	?	PUNCT	_	50 angry	punct
57	’	'	PUNCT	_	40 worth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	listen	past	the King		to the end of the old woman's strange request		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to end=Theme
2	grow	past	every moment			black property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	think speech: other	past	King	King		once property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present				worth property	tree rules
5	is	should	I			with poor old fool; angry property	tree rules
6	request		the old woman				nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent
7	feature		King				nom feature «cognition 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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