The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 51

The King promised to do so, and came to the nurse’s room a little before the time, and sat down on a chair with his drawn sword in his hand.

Who acts: King · What happens: promise, do, come, sit down, draw · To what, where: little, room, chair

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), 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 promised	nsubj
3	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 do	mark
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 promised	xcomp
6	so	so	ADV	_	5 do	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 came	cc
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 promised	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	14 room	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 nurse	det
12	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 room	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 nurse	case
14	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 little	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 came	obl:unmarked
17	before	before	ADP	_	19 time	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 time	det
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sat	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sat	cc
22	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 promised	parataxis
23	down	down	ADP	_	22 sat	compound:prt
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 chair	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 chair	det
26	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sat	obl
27	with	with	ADP	_	30 sword	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 sword	nmod:poss
29	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 sword	amod
30	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sat	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 hand	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 hand	nmod:poss
33	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sat	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	the King					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the King not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	the King not said here	a little	the nurse's room	time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location
4	sit down	past			a chair		with thing's drawn sword; in thing's hand	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on chair=Location
5	draw	participle						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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