English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 105

He entertained this king and his queen at dinner after his conquest of France so grandly, that the king said “Never had prince such a subject;” when Sir Richard heard this, he said: “Never had subject such a prince.”

Who acts: Fitzwarren, king, Sir · What happens: entertain, say, not have, hear · To what, where: king, dinner, prince, this, subject · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fitzwarren, king, Sir), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 entertained	nsubj
2	entertained	entertain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 entertained	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 queen	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 queen	nmod:poss
7	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 king	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 dinner	case
9	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 entertained	obl
10	after	after	ADP	_	12 conquest	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 conquest	nmod:poss
12	conquest	conquest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 entertained	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 France	case
14	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 conquest	nmod
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 grandly	advmod
16	grandly	grandly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 entertained	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 said	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 king	det
20	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 entertained	parataxis
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 had	punct
23	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 had	advmod
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 said	ccomp
25	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	obj
26	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	28 subject	det:predet
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 subject	det
28	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	obj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 entertained	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 entertained	punct
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 heard	advmod
32	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 heard	nsubj
33	Richard	Richard	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Sir	flat
34	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 said	advcl
35	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 heard	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 heard	punct
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 said	nsubj
38	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 entertained	parataxis
39	:	:	PUNCT	_	42 had	punct
40	“	"	PUNCT	_	42 had	punct
41	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	42 had	advmod
42	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 said	ccomp
43	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 had	obj
44	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	46 prince	det:predet
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 prince	det
46	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 had	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 entertained	punct
48	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 entertained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	entertain	past	Fitzwarren	this king and Fitzwarren's queen	dinner	after Fitzwarren's conquest of France	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	the king				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not have in a quote	past		prince			tree rules
4	hear	past	Sir	this			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
5	say speech: assert	past	Fitzwarren				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not have in a quote	past		subject			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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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