The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 71

But on the fourth day he stood in the presence of his people as their new king, and, calling his councillors, he told them all the strange things that had befallen him, and how the maiden had borne him safe through all.

Who acts: father, strange things · What happens: stand, call, tell, befall, bear · To what, where: presence, councillors, father, maiden · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, strange things), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 stood	cc
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 day	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 day	det
4	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 day	amod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stood	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stood	nsubj
7	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 presence	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 presence	det
10	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stood	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 people	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 people	nmod:poss
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 presence	nmod
14	as	as	ADP	_	17 king	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 king	nmod:poss
16	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 king	amod
17	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stood	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 calling	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 calling	cc
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 calling	punct
21	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 stood	advcl
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 councillors	nmod:poss
23	councillors	councillor	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 calling	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 told	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 told	nsubj
26	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stood	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 told	iobj
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 things	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 things	det
30	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 things	amod
31	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 told	ccomp
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 befallen	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 befallen	aux
34	befallen	befall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 things	acl:relcl
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 befallen	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 borne	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 borne	cc
38	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	42 borne	advmod
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 maiden	det
40	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 borne	nsubj:pass
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 borne	aux
42	borne	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 stood	parataxis
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 borne	obj
44	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 borne	xcomp
45	through	through	ADP	_	46 all	case
46	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	44 safe	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	father			the presence of father's people	day	as people's new king	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in presence=Location
2	call	gerund	father not said here	father's councillors					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent councillor=Recipient
3	tell speech: assert	past	father		councillors = councillor				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
4	befall	past · perfect	all strange things	father					tree rules
5	bear	past · perfect · passive		the maiden				safe property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Patient

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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