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The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 82

But while the King was still instructing the courtier exactly what he was to say, the first man of the ship’s company, the one with the miraculous power of hearing, had overheard the King’s words, and hastily reported them to the poor Simpleton.

Who acts: King · What happens: instruct, be, overhear, report, word · To what, where: courtier, words, courtiers, poor 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 (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

ccmarkdetnsubjauxadvmodadvcldetobjadvmodobjnsubjcopmarkparataxispunctdetamodobjcasedetnmod:posscasenmodpunctdetapposcasedetamodnmodcasenmodpunctauxdetnmod:posscaseobjpunctccadvmodconjobjcasedetamodoblpunctrootButCCONJwhileSCONJtheDETKingPROPNwasAUXstillADVinstructingVERBtheDETcourtierNOUNexactlyADVwhatPRONhePRONwasAUXtoPARTsayVERB,PUNCTtheDETfirstADJmanNOUNofADPtheDETshipNOUN’sPARTcompanyNOUN,PUNCTtheDEToneNOUNwithADPtheDETmiraculousADJpowerNOUNofADPhearingNOUN,PUNCThadAUXoverheardVERBtheDETKingPROPN’sPARTwordsNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJhastilyADVreportedVERBthemPRONtoADPtheDETpoorADJSimpletonPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_36 overheardcc
2whilewhileSCONJ_7 instructingmark
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 Kingdet
4KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing7 instructingnsubj
5wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 instructingaux
6stillstillADV_7 instructingadvmod
7instructinginstructVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part36 overheardadvcl
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 courtierdet
9courtiercourtierNOUNNumber=Sing7 instructingobj
10exactlyexactlyADV_11 whatadvmod
11whatwhatPRONPronType=Int15 sayobj
12hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 saynsubj
13wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 saycop
14totoPART_15 saymark
15saysayVERBVerbForm=Inf7 instructingparataxis
16,,PUNCT_19 manpunct
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 mandet
18firstfirstADJDegree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord19 manamod
19manmanNOUNNumber=Sing15 sayobj
20ofofADP_24 companycase
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 shipdet
22shipshipNOUNNumber=Sing24 companynmod:poss
23’s'sPART_22 shipcase
24companycompanyNOUNNumber=Sing19 mannmod
25,,PUNCT_27 onepunct
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 onedet
27oneoneNOUNNumber=Sing19 manappos
28withwithADP_31 powercase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 powerdet
30miraculousmiraculousADJDegree=Pos31 poweramod
31powerpowerNOUNNumber=Sing27 onenmod
32ofofADP_33 hearingcase
33hearinghearingNOUNNumber=Sing31 powernmod
34,,PUNCT_7 instructingpunct
35hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin36 overheardaux
36overheardoverhearVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Partrootroot
37thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art38 Kingdet
38KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing40 wordsnmod:poss
39’s'sPART_38 Kingcase
40wordswordNOUNNumber=Plur36 overheardobj
41,,PUNCT_44 reportedpunct
42andandCCONJ_44 reportedcc
43hastilyhastilyADV_44 reportedadvmod
44reportedreportVERBMood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin36 overheardconj
45themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs44 reportedobj
46totoADP_49 Simpletoncase
47thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art49 Simpletondet
48poorpoorADJDegree=Pos49 Simpletonamod
49SimpletonSimpletonPROPNNumber=Sing44 reportedobl
50..PUNCT_36 overheardpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1instruct speech: otherpast · progressivethe Kingthe courtierstillvn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent courtier=Recipient
2ispastKingsay propertytree rules
3overhearpast · perfectthe King's wordsvn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
4reportpastcourtiers = courtierthe poor Simpletonhastily propertyvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to simpleton=Recipient
5wordthe Kingnom 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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