The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 32

When they saw Mark they told him what a strange thing they had found.

Who acts: crowns · What happens: see, tell, find · To what, where: Mark, strange thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crowns), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	3 saw	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	advcl
4	Mark	Mark	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	iobj
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 told	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 thing	det
10	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thing	amod
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 what	nsubj
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 found	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 found	aux
14	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 thing	acl:relcl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	see	past	crowns = crown	Mark		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	past	crowns = crown		Mark	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	find	past · perfect	crowns = crown	a strange thing not said here		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic

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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