Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Cakes., sentence 18

King Alfred was very willing to watch the cakes, but he had far greater things to think about.

Who acts: King · What happens: be, watch, have, think about · To what, where: cakes, greater things

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Alfred and the Cakes.. 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	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 willing	nsubj
2	Alfred	Alfred	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 King	flat
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 willing	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 willing	advmod
5	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 watch	mark
7	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 willing	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cakes	det
9	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 watch	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 willing	parataxis
14	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 greater	advmod
15	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 things	amod
16	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 had	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 think	mark
18	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 things	acl
19	about	about	ADV	_	18 think	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 willing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	King		willing property	tree rules
2	watch	to-infinitive	King not said here	the cakes		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Theme
3	have	past	king	greater things		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
4	think about speech: other	to-infinitive	king not said here	greater things not said here	about property	vn focus-87.1-1 «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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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