Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 128

The King likes the history of Sir Iffven and Sir Gaudian particularly, which treats of King Arthur, and his Knights of the Round Table; he has more than once joked about it with his high vassals.”

Who acts: King, more · What happens: like, treat, have, joke · To what, where: history, Knights, more

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, more), 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	3 likes	nsubj
3	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 history	det
5	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 likes	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Iffven	case
7	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Iffven	nmod:desc
8	Iffven	Iffven	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 history	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Gaudian	cc
10	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Gaudian	nmod:desc
11	Gaudian	Gaudian	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Iffven	conj
12	particularly	particularly	ADV	_	3 likes	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 treats	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 treats	nsubj
15	treats	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 likes	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 Arthur	case
17	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Arthur	compound
18	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 treats	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Knights	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Knights	cc
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 Knights	nmod:poss
22	Knights	Knight	PROPN	Number=Plur	15 treats	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 Table	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Table	det
25	Round	Round	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Table	compound
26	Table	Table	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Knights	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 has	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 has	nsubj
29	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 likes	parataxis
30	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	29 has	obj
31	than	than	ADP	_	30 more	fixed
32	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	33 joked	advmod
33	joked	joke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 has	xcomp
34	about	about	ADP	_	35 it	case
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 joked	obl
36	with	with	ADP	_	39 vassals	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 vassals	nmod:poss
38	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 vassals	amod
39	vassals	vassal	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 joked	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 has	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 likes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	like	present	the King	the history of Iffven Sir and Gaudian Sir	particularly property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot history=Theme
2	treat	present		King's Knights of the Round Table	of King Arthur	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	have	present	King	more		tree rules
4	joke speech: other	participle	more not said here		about table; with King's high vassals; once property	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic with vassal=Co-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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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