The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 23

At the very moment when the King gave himself up to despair, he was passing through the wood for the eighth time, and called, as he had done all over the world:

Who acts: King · What happens: give up, despair, pass, call, do · To what, where: King, wood, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 3. 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 moment	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 moment	det
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 moment	advmod
4	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obl
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 gave	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 gave	nsubj
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 gave	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 gave	compound:prt
11	to	to	PART	_	12 despair	mark
12	despair	despair	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 gave	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 passing	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 passing	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 passing	aux
16	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 despair	advcl
17	through	through	ADP	_	19 wood	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wood	det
19	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 passing	obl
20	for	for	ADP	_	23 time	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 time	det
22	eighth	eighth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 time	amod
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 passing	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 called	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 called	cc
26	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 gave	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 done	punct
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 done	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 done	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 done	aux
31	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 called	parataxis
32	all	all	ADV	_	35 world	advmod
33	over	over	ADP	_	35 world	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 world	det
35	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 done	obl
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	give up	past	the King	King		moment	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Source
2	despair	to-infinitive	the King not said here				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	pass	past · progressive	King		the wood	time	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through wood=Location
4	call speech: assert	participle					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	do	past · perfect	King		the world		vn act-114-1 «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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