The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 112

‘There it is!’ said the King, when he saw the first door with a cross on it.

Who acts: waiting, King · What happens: be, say, see · To what, where: first door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (waiting, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 is	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 is	expl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 is	nsubj
4	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 is	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 is	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 King	det
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saw	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 saw	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 saw	nsubj
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 door	det
15	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 door	amod
16	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 cross	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 cross	det
19	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	obl
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 cross	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	waiting		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the King				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see	past	King	the first door		with a cross on waiting	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer door=Stimulus

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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