The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 25

Then he answered: ‘When I saw how many people sought you, and could not find you, and lost their lives in so doing, I invented this trick, and so I am come safely to you.’

Who acts: king, I, many people · What happens: answer, see, seek, not find, lose, do · To what, where: you, lives, trick · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, I, many people), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 answered	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct
6	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 saw	advmod
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 answered	conj
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 many	advmod
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 people	amod
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sought	nsubj
12	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saw	ccomp
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 sought	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 find	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 find	cc
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 find	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 find	advmod
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 saw	conj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 find	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lost	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 lost	cc
22	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 answered	conj
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 lives	nmod:poss
24	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 lost	obj
25	in	in	SCONJ	_	27 doing	mark
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 doing	advmod
27	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 lost	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 invented	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 invented	nsubj
30	invented	invent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 answered	conj
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 trick	det
32	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 invented	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 come	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 come	cc
35	so	so	ADV	_	38 come	advmod
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 come	nsubj
37	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 come	aux
38	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 invented	conj
39	safely	safely	ADV	_	38 come	advmod
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 you	case
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 come	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	king			then		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	past	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	seek	past	many people	you				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	not find	could	I not said here	you				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic
5	lose	past	king not said here	people's lives				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality
6	do	gerund	king not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	invent	past	I	this trick				vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Result
8	come	present	I		you		safely property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location

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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