Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Cakes., sentence 5
And so, between ruling and fighting, he had a busy time of it indeed.
Who acts: king · What happens: rule, fight, have
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ruling | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 ruling | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ruling | punct |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 5 ruling | mark |
| 5 | ruling | rule | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fighting | cc |
| 7 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 ruling | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ruling | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 12 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 time | amod |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 time | nmod |
| 16 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 10 had | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ruling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | gerund | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | fight | gerund | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | have | past | king | time | indeed property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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