The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 29

Then the whole thing dawned on the King, and groaning deeply he muttered to himself ‘So this is what I did not know about,’ and the tears rolled down his cheeks.

Who acts: KING, this, I, tears · What happens: dawn, groan, mutter, be, not know about, roll down · To what, where: whole thing, KING, cheeks · 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, this, I, tears), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 thing	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thing	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thing	amod
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	dawned	dawn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 thing	acl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 King	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dawned	obl:agent
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 know	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 know	cc
11	groaning	groan	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 know	csubj
12	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	14 muttered	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 muttered	nsubj
14	muttered	mutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 groaning	advcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 himself	case
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 muttered	obl
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 know	punct
18	So	so	ADV	_	21 what	advmod
19	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 what	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 what	cop
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 know	obj
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 know	nsubj
23	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 know	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 know	advmod
25	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thing	parataxis
26	about	about	ADP	_	25 know	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 know	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	25 know	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 rolled	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 tears	det
31	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 rolled	nsubj
32	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 know	conj
33	down	down	ADP	_	32 rolled	compound:prt
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 cheeks	nmod:poss
35	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 rolled	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	dawn	participle		the whole thing not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	groan	gerund					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	mutter speech: assert	past	KING		KING	deeply property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
4	is a	present	this	the whole thing			tree rules
5	not know about	past · do-support	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	roll down	past	the tears	KING's cheeks			vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cheek=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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