The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 41
The morning after his visit to the castle the whole city was in an uproar about the dreadful misfortune that had happened to the Royal Family, for not only the king but his wife and children, had eaten of the stranger’s apples, and all, so said the rumour, were very ill.
Who acts: morning, dreadful misfortune, wife, Tiidu · What happens: be, happen, eat, say, visit · To what, where: uproar, all · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (morning, dreadful misfortune, wife, Tiidu), 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 morning | det |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 uproar | nsubj |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 visit | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 visit | nmod:poss |
| 5 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 morning | nmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 castle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 castle | det |
| 8 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 visit | nmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 city | det |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 city | amod |
| 11 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 uproar | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 uproar | cop |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 uproar | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 uproar | det |
| 15 | uproar | uproar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 misfortune | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 misfortune | det |
| 18 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 misfortune | amod |
| 19 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 uproar | nmod |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 happened | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 happened | aux |
| 22 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 misfortune | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Family | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Family | det |
| 25 | Royal | Royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Family | amod |
| 26 | Family | Family | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 happened | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 king | punct |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 king | case |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 king | advmod |
| 30 | only | only | ADV | _ | 32 king | advmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 king | det |
| 32 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 happened | parataxis |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 eaten | cc |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 wife | nmod:poss |
| 35 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 eaten | nsubj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 children | cc |
| 37 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 wife | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 wife | punct |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 eaten | aux |
| 40 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 king | conj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 apples | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 stranger | det |
| 43 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 apples | nmod:poss |
| 44 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 43 stranger | case |
| 45 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 eaten | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 said | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 said | cc |
| 48 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 51 said | obl |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 all | punct |
| 50 | so | so | ADV | _ | 51 said | advmod |
| 51 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 uproar | parataxis |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 rumour | det |
| 53 | rumour | rumour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 said | obj |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 ill | punct |
| 55 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 57 ill | cop |
| 56 | very | very | ADV | _ | 57 ill | advmod |
| 57 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 said | advcl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 uproar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the morning after Tiidu's visit to the castle | a uproar | about the dreadful misfortune | tree rules | |||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | the dreadful misfortune | to the Royal Family | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | eat | past · perfect | Tiidu's wife and children | of the stranger's apples | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of apple=Source | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | all | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rumour=Topic | |||||
| 5 | is | past | ill property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | visit | Tiidu | to the castle | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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