The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 51
The king’s joy was so great at this news that he would gladly have given Tiidu half of his kingdom; but the piper was no longer so greedy of money as he once was, before he had been shipwrecked on the island.
Who acts: joy, piper, king · What happens: be, give, shipwreck, joy · To what, where: news, king, island
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 (joy, piper, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 joy | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 great | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 great | cop |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 great | advmod |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 news | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 news | det |
| 10 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 great | obl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 given | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 given | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 given | aux |
| 14 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 16 given | advmod |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 given | aux |
| 16 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 news | advcl |
| 17 | Tiidu | Tiidu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 half | compound |
| 18 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 16 given | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 kingdom | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 21 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 half | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 greedy | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 greedy | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 piper | det |
| 25 | piper | piper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 greedy | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 greedy | cop |
| 27 | no | no | ADV | _ | 28 longer | advmod |
| 28 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 30 greedy | advmod |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 greedy | advmod |
| 30 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 great | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 money | case |
| 32 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 greedy | obl |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 36 was | mark |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 was | nsubj |
| 35 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 36 was | advmod |
| 36 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 greedy | advcl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 shipwrecked | punct |
| 38 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 42 shipwrecked | mark |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 shipwrecked | nsubj |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 shipwrecked | aux |
| 41 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 42 shipwrecked | aux:pass |
| 42 | shipwrecked | shipwreck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 greedy | conj |
| 43 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 island | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 island | det |
| 45 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 shipwrecked | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 great | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king's joy | this news | great property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give | would · perfect · passive | king | gladly property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient half=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the piper | of money; greedy, long property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | past | king | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | shipwreck | past · perfect · passive | king | the island | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | joy | the king | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=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: «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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