The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 90
And once more Ilonka went to the king’s room and spoke to him; whisper as sweetly as she might she could get no answer.
Who acts: Ilonka · What happens: go, speak, get · To what, where: whisper, room, king, answer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (Ilonka), 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 went | cc |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 more | advmod |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 went | advmod |
| 4 | Ilonka | Ilonka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 room | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 room | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 king | case |
| 10 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 spoke | cc |
| 12 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 spoke | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 whisper | punct |
| 16 | whisper | whisper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 sweetly | advmod |
| 18 | sweetly | sweetly | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 get | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 get | nsubj |
| 21 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 get | aux |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 get | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 get | aux |
| 24 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sweetly | advcl |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 answer | det |
| 26 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 get | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Ilonka | whisper | the king's room | sweetly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | Ilonka not said here | king | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | get | could | Ilonka | no answer | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus |
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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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