The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 125

Now when this strange tale was told to the King he became quite sad, not knowing what he should do to get rid of so undesirable a son-in-law, when suddenly a brilliant idea occurred to him.

Who acts: Simpleton, brilliant idea · What happens: tell, become, not know, do, get, occur · To what, where: strange tale, King, Simpleton · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Simpleton, brilliant idea), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 became	advmod
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 told	mark
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 tale	det
4	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tale	amod
5	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	aux:pass
7	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 became	advcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 King	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 told	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 became	nsubj
12	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	quite	quite	ADV	_	14 sad	advmod
14	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 became	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 knowing	punct
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 knowing	advmod
17	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 became	advcl
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 do	obj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 do	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 do	aux
21	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 knowing	xcomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 get	mark
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 do	advcl
24	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 get	xcomp
25	of	of	SCONJ	_	27 undesirable	mark
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 undesirable	advmod
27	undesirable	undesirable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 rid	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 son	det
29	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 undesirable	nsubj
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 law	punct
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 law	case
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 in	punct
33	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 son	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 occurred	punct
35	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	40 occurred	advmod
36	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	39 idea	advmod
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 idea	det
38	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 idea	amod
39	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 occurred	nsubj
40	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 son	acl:relcl
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 him	case
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 occurred	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		this strange tale	the King			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to king=Recipient
2	become	past	Simpleton			now	sad property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	not know	gerund	Simpleton not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	do	should	Simpleton					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
5	get	to-infinitive	Simpleton not said here				rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	occur	past	a brilliant idea		Simpleton			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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