The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 73

Now, instead of a common soldier he had become a noble lord, and the people told him about all the grand doings of the town and the King, and what a beautiful Princess his daughter was.

Who acts: soldier, people, beautiful Princess · What happens: become, tell, be · To what, where: noble lord, soldier · 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 (soldier, people, beautiful Princess), 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	10 become	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	7 soldier	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	3 instead	fixed
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 soldier	det
6	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 soldier	amod
7	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 become	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 become	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 become	aux
10	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 lord	det
12	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lord	amod
13	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 become	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 told	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 people	det
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 told	nsubj
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 become	parataxis
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	iobj
20	about	about	ADP	_	24 doings	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 doings	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 doings	det
23	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 doings	amod
24	doings	doing	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 told	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 town	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 town	det
27	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 doings	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 King	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 King	det
30	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 town	appos
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 what	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 what	cc
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 told	parataxis
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 Princess	det
35	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 Princess	amod
36	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 what	nsubj
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 daughter	nmod:poss
38	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 Princess	conj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 what	cop
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 become	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	become	past · perfect	soldier	a noble lord		now	instead a common soldier	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	past	the people		soldier		about all grand doings of the town	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about doing=Topic
3	is a	past	a beautiful Princess and soldier's daughter					tree rules

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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