The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 30

When the King heard this, he told Cola-Mattheo to bring the snake to the palace, and said that he was prepared to receive the creature as his son-in-law.

Who acts: King · What happens: hear, tell, bring, say, prepare, receive · To what, where: this, Cola, snake, palace, King, creature · 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	advcl
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 heard	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	nsubj
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Cola	Cola	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 told	iobj
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Mattheo	punct
11	Mattheo	Mattheo	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Cola	flat
12	to	to	PART	_	13 bring	mark
13	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 told	ccomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 snake	det
15	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bring	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 palace	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 palace	det
18	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bring	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 prepared	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 prepared	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 prepared	aux:pass
25	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 said	ccomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 receive	mark
27	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 prepared	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 creature	det
29	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 receive	obj
30	as	as	ADP	_	36 law	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 son	nmod:poss
32	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 law	nsubj
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 law	punct
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 law	case
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 in	punct
36	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 receive	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the King	this				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	past	King		Cola			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent cola=Recipient clause=Topic
3	bring not said to happen	to-infinitive		the snake		the palace		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent snake=Theme to palace=Destination
4	say speech: assert	past	King not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	prepare	past · passive		King				vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
6	receive not said to happen	to-infinitive		the creature			as law	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Theme

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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