The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 17

The King, when he rose and saw the miracle that had been performed, was beside himself with amazement, and didn’t know what in the world he was to do.

Who acts: King · What happens: rise, see, perform, be, not know · To what, where: miracle, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 rose	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rose	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 rose	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rose	nsubj
6	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 saw	cc
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rose	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 miracle	det
10	miracle	miracle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 performed	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 performed	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 performed	aux:pass
14	performed	perform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 miracle	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 himself	punct
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 himself	cop
17	beside	beside	ADP	_	18 himself	case
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 rose	obl
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 amazement	case
20	amazement	amazement	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rose	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 know	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 know	cc
23	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 know	aux
24	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 know	advmod
25	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 rose	conj
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 do	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 world	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 world	det
29	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 do	obl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 do	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 do	cop
32	to	to	PART	_	33 do	mark
33	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 know	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rise	past	the King			with amazement	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	past	the King not said here	the miracle			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer miracle=Stimulus
3	perform	past · perfect · passive		the miracle			vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	is	past				beside King	tree rules
5	not know	past · do-support	the King not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	is	past	King		the world	do 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 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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