English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 21

The king was coming down the street, and he heard her sing, but what she sang he couldn't hear, so he stopped and said:

Who acts: king, Darter · What happens: come down, hear, sing, not hear, stop, say · To what, where: street, sing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Tom Tit Tot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Darter), 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	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coming	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 coming	aux
4	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	7 street	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 street	det
7	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coming	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 heard	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 heard	nsubj
11	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 coming	conj
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 sing	nmod:poss
13	sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heard	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 what	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 what	cc
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 heard	parataxis
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sang	nsubj
18	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 what	acl:relcl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 hear	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 hear	aux
21	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 hear	advmod
22	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 sang	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stopped	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	26 stopped	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 stopped	nsubj
26	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 coming	parataxis
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 said	cc
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 stopped	conj
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 coming	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come down	past · progressive	the king	the street	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location street=Theme
2	hear	past	king	Darter's sing	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sing=Stimulus
3	sing speech: express	past	Darter		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not hear	could	king		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
5	stop	past	king		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	say speech: assert	past	king not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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: «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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