The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 59

The King thereupon was very angry, and wanted to punish the woman; but the Queen prevented him, saying:

Who acts: King, Queen · What happens: be, want, punish, prevent, say · To what, where: woman, King · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Queen), 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	6 angry	nsubj
3	thereupon	thereupon	ADV	_	6 angry	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 angry	advmod
6	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wanted	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wanted	cc
9	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	parataxis
10	to	to	PART	_	11 punish	mark
11	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wanted	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 punish	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 prevented	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 prevented	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Queen	det
17	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 prevented	nsubj
18	prevented	prevent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 prevented	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 saying	punct
21	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 prevented	advcl
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the King		angry, thereupon property	tree rules
2	want	past				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	punish not said to happen	to-infinitive		the woman		vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Patient
4	prevent	past	the Queen	King		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme
5	say speech: assert	gerund	the Queen not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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