The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 57
The king knew of nothing that could have produced such an alteration.
Who acts: king · What happens: know, produce · To what, where: alteration
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 nothing | case |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 knew | obl |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 produced | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 produced | aux |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 produced | aux |
| 9 | produced | produce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 10 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 alteration | det:predet |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 alteration | det |
| 12 | alteration | alteration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 produced | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the king | of nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | produce | could · perfect · passive | such alteration | tree rules |
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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