The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 22
The king’s heart beat with delight, but the old groom who had had the care of them stood crossly by, and eyed the owner of this wonderful creature with hate and envy.
Who acts: old groom, heart beat, care, wars · What happens: have, stand, eye, care · To what, where: owner
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old groom, heart beat, care, wars), 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 | 5 beat | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beat | compound |
| 5 | beat | beat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | nsubj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 delight | case |
| 7 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beat | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 had | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 groom | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 groom | amod |
| 12 | groom | groom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | nsubj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 groom | acl:relcl |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 care | det |
| 17 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stood | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 care | nmod |
| 20 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 had | conj |
| 21 | crossly | crossly | ADV | _ | 20 stood | advmod |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 stood | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 eyed | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 eyed | cc |
| 25 | eyed | eye | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 had | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 owner | det |
| 27 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 eyed | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 creature | case |
| 29 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 creature | det |
| 30 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 creature | amod |
| 31 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 owner | nmod |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 hate | case |
| 33 | hate | hate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 creature | nmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 envy | cc |
| 35 | envy | envy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 hate | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the old groom | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have | past | the king's heart beat with delight | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | the care of wars | crossly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | eye | past | the king's heart beat with delight not said here | the owner of this wonderful creature with hate and envy | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer owner=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | care | wars = war | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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