The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 41
The old king was furious when he found that all his arts had failed; that his son still lived and that he would have to give up the crown to him now he was married, for that was the law of the land.
Who acts: old king, king, arts, son, that · What happens: be, find, fail, live, have, give up · To what, where: crown, king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old king, king, arts, son), 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 | 3 king | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 furious | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 furious | cop |
| 5 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 found | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 furious | advcl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 failed | mark |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 arts | det:predet |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 arts | nmod:poss |
| 12 | arts | art | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 failed | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 failed | aux |
| 14 | failed | fail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 found | ccomp |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 lived | punct |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 lived | mark |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 son | nmod:poss |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lived | nsubj |
| 19 | still | still | ADV | _ | 20 lived | advmod |
| 20 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 furious | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 have | cc |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 have | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 have | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 have | aux |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 lived | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 give | mark |
| 27 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 married | advcl |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 give | compound:prt |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 crown | det |
| 30 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 give | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 him | case |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 give | obl |
| 33 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 married | advmod |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 married | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 married | aux:pass |
| 36 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 have | parataxis |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 law | punct |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 law | case |
| 39 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 42 law | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 law | cop |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 law | det |
| 42 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 married | conj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 land | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 land | det |
| 45 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 law | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 furious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the old king | furious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | past | king | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fail | past · perfect | king's arts | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | live | past | king's son | still | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | would | son | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | give up | to-infinitive | the crown | king | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent crown=Theme to he=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | marry | past · passive | king | now | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 8 | is | past | that | for the law; of the land | 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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