The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 23

The King didn’t pause to ponder long, ‘for what,’ thought he, ‘could be in my palace without my knowing about it--the thing is absurd;’ so he answered quickly:

Who acts: King, my, thing · What happens: not pause, ponder, think, be, know, answer · To what, where: palace · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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, my, thing), 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	5 pause	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pause	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 pause	advmod
5	pause	pause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 ponder	mark
7	ponder	ponder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 pause	xcomp
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ponder	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 what	case
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 pause	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct
15	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 what	acl:relcl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 palace	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 he	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 he	punct
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 palace	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 palace	cop
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 palace	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 palace	nmod:poss
23	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thought	ccomp
24	without	without	SCONJ	_	26 knowing	mark
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 knowing	nsubj
26	knowing	know	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 palace	acl
27	about	about	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 knowing	obl
29	--	--	PUNCT	_	33 absurd	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 thing	det
31	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 absurd	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 absurd	cop
33	absurd	absurd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 palace	conj
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 answered	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	38 answered	punct
36	so	so	ADV	_	38 answered	advmod
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 answered	nsubj
38	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pause	parataxis
39	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	38 answered	advmod
40	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 pause	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not pause	past · do-support	the King				tree rules
2	ponder	to-infinitive	the King not said here			long property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	past					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	could	KING		my palace		tree rules
5	know	gerund	my	my palace not said here		about palace	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus
6	is	present	the thing			absurd property	tree rules
7	answer speech: assert	past	KING			quickly property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: 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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