The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 33

After he had walked some way he began to cry loudly: ‘Oh, how unlucky I am!

Who acts: king, I · What happens: walk, begin, cry, be · To what, where: way

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. 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), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	4 walked	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 walked	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walked	aux
4	walked	walk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walked	obl:unmarked
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 began	nsubj
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 way	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 cry	mark
10	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 began	xcomp
11	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	10 cry	advmod
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 unlucky	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 unlucky	punct
14	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	17 unlucky	discourse
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 unlucky	punct
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 unlucky	advmod
17	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 walked	conj
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 unlucky	nsubj
19	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 unlucky	cop
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	walk	past · perfect	king	some way		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past	king	some way not said here		tree rules
3	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	king not said here		loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	I		unlucky property	tree rules

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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