The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 69

In a moment the King of the Foxes stood before him and said: ‘I know already what you want, and will summon all the foxes of the world together to find the mare who has hidden herself in a hill.’

Who acts: King, I, you · What happens: stand, say, know, want, summon, find · To what, where: foxes, mare, hill · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). 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, you), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stood	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 stood	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Foxes	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Foxes	det
8	Foxes	Fox	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 King	nmod
9	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	before	before	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stood	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stood	conj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 know	nsubj
17	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
18	already	already	ADV	_	17 know	advmod
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 want	obj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 want	nsubj
21	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 know	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 summon	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 summon	cc
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 summon	aux
25	summon	summon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 know	conj
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 foxes	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 foxes	det
28	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 summon	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 world	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 world	det
31	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 foxes	nmod
32	together	together	ADV	_	25 summon	advmod
33	to	to	PART	_	34 find	mark
34	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 summon	advcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 mare	det
36	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 find	obj
37	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 hidden	nsubj:pass
38	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 hidden	aux
39	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 mare	acl:relcl
40	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	39 hidden	obj
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 hill	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 hill	det
43	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 hidden	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 stood	punct
45	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the King of the Foxes				before Prince; moment		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the King of the Foxes not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know	present	I						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	want	present	you						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
5	summon	future	I not said here		all foxes of the world			together property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Recipient
6	find	to-infinitive	I not said here	the mare					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mare=Topic
7	hide	present · perfect · passive		the mare		a hill			tree rules

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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