The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 75
And the king remembered the mountain, and the spell, and vowed to repay the service if he ever had a chance.
Who acts: king · What happens: remember, vow, repay, have · To what, where: mountain, service, chance
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 remembered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remembered | nsubj |
| 4 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mountain | det |
| 6 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remembered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 spell | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 spell | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 spell | det |
| 10 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remembered | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 vowed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 vowed | cc |
| 13 | vowed | vow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 remembered | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 repay | mark |
| 15 | repay | repay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 vowed | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 service | det |
| 17 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 repay | obj |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 had | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 had | nsubj |
| 20 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 had | advmod |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 repay | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 chance | det |
| 23 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | the king | the mountain | the spell obl | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme | |||
| 2 | vow | past | the king not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | repay not said to happen | to-infinitive | the king not said here | the service | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent service=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | king | a chance | ever | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient |
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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