Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar., sentence 29
And King Alfred ruled wisely and well over all his people for the rest of his days.
Who acts: King · What happens: rule
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Alfred and the Beggar.. 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 | _ | 4 ruled | cc |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ruled | nsubj |
| 3 | Alfred | Alfred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | flat |
| 4 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | wisely | wisely | ADV | _ | 4 ruled | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 well | cc |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 wisely | conj |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 people | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 people | det:predet |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 people | nmod:poss |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ruled | obl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 rest | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rest | det |
| 14 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ruled | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 days | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 days | nmod:poss |
| 17 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 rest | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ruled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | past | King | over King's people; for the rest of King's days; wisely property | vn dub-29.3.2 «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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