The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 149

Now the story comes back to Red, who came into the hall and showed the King his right arm wanting the hand, and said that now he could see what kind of a man his intended son-in-law was, for he had done this to him without any cause whatever.

Who acts: story, Red, right arm · What happens: come back, come, show, want, say, see · To what, where: Red, hall, right arm, King, hand, this · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, Red, right arm), 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	4 comes	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 story	det
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	nsubj
4	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 comes	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Red	case
7	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 comes	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Red	acl:relcl
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 hall	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hall	det
13	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 showed	cc
15	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 King	det
17	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 showed	obj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 arm	nmod:poss
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 arm	amod
20	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 showed	obj
21	wanting	want	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 arm	acl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hand	det
23	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wanting	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 said	cc
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 comes	parataxis
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 see	mark
28	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 see	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 see	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 see	aux
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 said	ccomp
32	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	33 kind	det
33	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 this	nsubj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 man	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 man	det
36	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 kind	nmod
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 son	nmod:poss
38	intended	intend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 son	amod
39	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 done	nsubj
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 law	punct
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 law	case
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 in	punct
43	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 son	nmod
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 done	aux:pass
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 done	punct
46	for	for	ADP	_	49 done	case
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 done	nsubj
48	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 done	aux
49	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 kind	acl:relcl
50	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 see	obj
51	to	to	ADP	_	52 him	case
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 see	obl
53	without	without	ADP	_	55 cause	case
54	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	55 cause	det
55	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 see	obl
56	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 cause	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	present	the story			Red	now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to red=Initial_Location
2	come	past	Red			the hall			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hall=Initial_Location
3	show	past	Red not said here	story's right arm	the King				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient arm=Topic
4	want	gerund	story's right arm not said here	the hand					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hand=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	see	could	story	this	son		now	without any cause whatever	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
7	intend	participle							vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
8	do	past · perfect · passive		story's intended son in law					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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