The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 101

Once more the sharp-eared comrade overheard the King’s words while he was still talking to the courtier, and reported them to the Simpleton.

Who acts: eared comrade, comrade, King · What happens: overhear, talk, report, word · To what, where: words, courtiers, Simpleton

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eared comrade, comrade, 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 more	advmod
2	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 overheard	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 comrade	det
4	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eared	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 sharp	punct
6	eared	eared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 comrade	amod
7	comrade	comrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 overheard	nsubj
8	overheard	overhear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 words	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 King	case
12	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 overheard	obj
13	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 talking	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 talking	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 talking	aux
16	still	still	ADV	_	17 talking	advmod
17	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 overheard	advcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 courtier	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 courtier	det
20	courtier	courtier	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 talking	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 reported	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 reported	cc
23	reported	report	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 overheard	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 reported	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 Simpleton	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Simpleton	det
27	Simpleton	Simpleton	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 reported	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 overheard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	overhear	past	the eared comrade	the King's words				vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2	talk	past · progressive	comrade			still	to the courtier	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to courtier=Co-Agent
3	report	past	the eared comrade not said here	courtiers = courtier	the Simpleton			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to simpleton=Recipient
4	word		the King					nom word «communication 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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