The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 93

When he beheld the old woman flinging her arms wildly about, and heard her scream that she would not leave the place till she had laid her case before the King, he ordered that she should be brought into his presence.

Who acts: King, old woman, woman · What happens: behold, fling, hear, not leave, lay, order · To what, where: old woman, arms, scream, place, case, woman · 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, old woman, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 beheld	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 beheld	nsubj
3	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 ordered	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woman	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beheld	obj
7	flinging	fling	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 woman	acl
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 arms	nmod:poss
9	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 flinging	obj
10	wildly	wildly	ADV	_	11 about	advmod
11	about	about	ADV	_	7 flinging	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 heard	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 heard	cc
14	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 beheld	conj
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 scream	nmod:poss
16	scream	scream	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 heard	obj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 leave	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 leave	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 leave	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 leave	advmod
21	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 heard	ccomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 place	det
23	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 leave	obj
24	till	till	SCONJ	_	27 laid	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 laid	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 laid	aux
27	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 leave	advcl
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 case	nmod:poss
29	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 laid	obj
30	before	before	ADP	_	32 King	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 King	det
32	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 laid	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 beheld	punct
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 ordered	nsubj
35	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 brought	mark
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 brought	nsubj
38	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 brought	aux
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 brought	aux:pass
40	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 ordered	ccomp
41	into	into	ADP	_	43 presence	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 presence	nmod:poss
43	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 brought	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	behold	past	King	the old woman				vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
2	fling	gerund	the old woman not said here	woman's arms			about property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
3	hear	past	King not said here	woman's scream				tree rules
4	not leave	would	woman	the place				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
5	lay	past · perfect	woman	woman's case		before the King		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent case=Theme before king=Destination
6	order	past	King					vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	bring	should · passive		woman	King's presence			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into presence=Destination
8	scream		woman					nom scream «communication intransitive»: 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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