The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 48
Her promise comforted the troubled heart of the king, and a few days after he died, at peace with himself and with the world.
Who acts: promise, welfare · What happens: comfort, die, promise · To what, where: troubled heart, peace
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (promise, welfare), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 promise | nmod:poss |
| 2 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comforted | nsubj |
| 3 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 heart | det |
| 5 | troubled | troubled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 heart | amod |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comforted | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 king | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heart | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 died | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 died | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 days | det |
| 13 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 days | amod |
| 14 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 after | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 17 died | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 died | nsubj |
| 17 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 comforted | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 peace | punct |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 peace | case |
| 20 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 died | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 himself | case |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 peace | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 world | cc |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 world | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 world | det |
| 26 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 himself | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 comforted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | comfort | past | welfare's promise | the troubled heart of the king | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus heart=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | die | past | promise | peace with king | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | promise | welfare | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=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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