The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 178

But he was told that the King had gone into the country to receive his rents.

Who acts: King, moon · What happens: tell, go, receive, rent · To what, where: moon, country, rents · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, moon), 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	_	4 told	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 gone	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 gone	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gone	aux
9	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 told	ccomp
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 country	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 country	det
12	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gone	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 receive	mark
14	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 gone	advcl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 rents	nmod:poss
16	rents	rent	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 receive	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		moon		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go	past · perfect	the King		the country	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into country=Initial_Location
3	receive	to-infinitive	the King not said here	moon's rents		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rent=Theme
4	rent		moon			nom rent «possession transitive»: poss=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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