The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 89

The King replied that he thought it altogether unbecoming to propose such a thing to Ring, seeing that he could not tell him where the things were; but Red pretended not to hear the King’s excuses, and went on talking about it until the King gave in to him.

Who acts: King, Ring, things, Red · What happens: reply, think, propose, ring, see, not tell · To what, where: thing, Christmas, excuses, Ring · 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 (King, Ring, things, Red), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 replied	nsubj
3	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 thought	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thought	nsubj
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 replied	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 unbecoming	nsubj
8	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	9 unbecoming	advmod
9	unbecoming	unbecoming	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thought	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 propose	mark
11	propose	propose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 unbecoming	xcomp
12	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	14 thing	det:predet
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 thing	det
14	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 propose	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 Ring	mark
16	Ring	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 thing	acl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seeing	punct
18	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 Ring	advcl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 tell	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tell	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 tell	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 tell	advmod
23	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 seeing	advcl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tell	iobj
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 tell	ccomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 things	det
27	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 where	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 where	cop
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 pretended	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 pretended	cc
31	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 pretended	nsubj
32	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 replied	parataxis
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 hear	advmod
34	to	to	PART	_	35 hear	mark
35	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 pretended	xcomp
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 King	det
37	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 excuses	nmod:poss
38	’s	's	PART	_	37 King	case
39	excuses	excuse	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 hear	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 went	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 went	cc
42	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 pretended	conj
43	on	on	SCONJ	_	44 talking	mark
44	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 went	advcl
45	about	about	ADP	_	46 it	case
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 talking	obl
47	until	until	SCONJ	_	50 gave	mark
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 King	det
49	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 gave	nsubj
50	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 went	advcl
51	in	in	ADP	_	50 gave	compound:prt
52	to	to	ADP	_	53 him	case
53	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 gave	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the King				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	past	Ring				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	propose	to-infinitive	Ring not said here	such thing			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
4	ring	to-infinitive	Ring not said here	such thing not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	gerund	Ring not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	not tell speech: assert	could	Ring		Christmas		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
7	is	past	the things			where property	tree rules
8	pretend	past	Red				tree rules
9	not hear	to-infinitive	Red not said here	the King's excuses			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer excuse=Stimulus
10	go	past	Red not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	talk	gerund	Red not said here			about idea	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
12	give in	past	the King		Ring		vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to he=Pivot
13	excuse		the King				nom excuse «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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