The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 79
All day long he drank till he was too stupid to attend to his business, and everything in the kingdom went to rack and ruin.
Who acts: king, everything · What happens: drink, be, attend, go, rack, ruin
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 (king, everything), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drank | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 drank | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 drank | nsubj |
| 5 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 stupid | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stupid | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stupid | cop |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 10 stupid | advmod |
| 10 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 drank | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 attend | mark |
| 12 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 stupid | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 business | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 business | nmod:poss |
| 15 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 attend | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 went | cc |
| 18 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 22 went | nsubj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 kingdom | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 kingdom | det |
| 21 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 everything | nmod |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 drank | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 rack | mark |
| 24 | rack | rack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 went | xcomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 ruin | cc |
| 26 | ruin | ruin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 rack | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 drank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | past | king | day | long property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is | past | king | stupid property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | attend | to-infinitive | king not said here | to king's business | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to business=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | past | everything | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | rack | to-infinitive | everything not said here | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | ruin | infinitive | everything not said here | vn destroy-44 «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: «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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