The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 3

When the King came to be bowed down with the weight of years he spoke to his son, and said that now it was time for him to look out for a fitting match for himself, for he did not know how long he might last now, and he would like to see him married before he died.

Who acts: King, Sigurd, weight, time · What happens: come, bow down, speak, say, be, look out · To what, where: years, time, Sigurd · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Sigurd, weight, time), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 said	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	7 bowed	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 bowed	aux:pass
7	bowed	bow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 came	advcl
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 bowed	compound:prt
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 weight	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 weight	det
11	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bowed	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 years	case
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 weight	nmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 spoke	nsubj
15	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 years	acl:relcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 son	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 son	nmod:poss
18	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spoke	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 look	mark
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 time	advmod
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 time	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 time	cop
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 look	nsubj
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 time	nmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 look	mark
30	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	ccomp
31	out	out	ADP	_	30 look	compound:prt
32	for	for	ADP	_	35 match	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 match	det
34	fitting	fitting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 match	amod
35	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 look	obl
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 himself	case
37	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 look	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 know	punct
39	for	for	SCONJ	_	43 know	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 know	nsubj
41	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 know	aux
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 know	advmod
43	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 look	conj
44	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	45 long	advmod
45	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	48 last	advmod
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 last	nsubj
47	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 last	aux
48	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 know	ccomp
49	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	48 last	advmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 like	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 like	cc
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 like	nsubj
53	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 like	aux
54	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	ccomp
55	to	to	PART	_	56 see	mark
56	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 like	xcomp
57	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 see	obj
58	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	56 see	xcomp
59	before	before	SCONJ	_	61 died	mark
60	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 died	nsubj
61	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 married	advcl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the King				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bow down	to-infinitive · passive	the King not said here			with the weight of years	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»
3	speak speech: other	past	Sigurd	years not said here		to Sigurd's son	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	is a	past	weight	time	now	for Sigurd	tree rules
6	look out	to-infinitive	time			for a fitting match; for Sigurd	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for match=Theme
7	not know	past · do-support	Sigurd				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	last	might	Sigurd		now	long property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
9	like	would	Sigurd				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
10	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	Sigurd not said here	Sigurd			tree rules
11	marry	participle	Sigurd not said here				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
12	die	past	Sigurd				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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