The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 72
In a moment the king had him fast in the golden cage, and showed him, with ferocious joy, to the strangers who were visiting his court.
Who acts: king, strangers · What happens: have, show, visit · To what, where: man, golden cage, court
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 (king, strangers), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 had | obj |
| 8 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 had | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 cage | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cage | det |
| 11 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cage | amod |
| 12 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 showed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 showed | cc |
| 15 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 had | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 showed | iobj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 joy | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 joy | case |
| 19 | ferocious | ferocious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 joy | amod |
| 20 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 showed | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 strangers | punct |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 strangers | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 strangers | det |
| 24 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 showed | obl |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 visiting | nsubj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 visiting | aux |
| 27 | visiting | visit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 strangers | acl:relcl |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 court | nmod:poss |
| 29 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 visiting | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the king | man | the golden cage | moment | fast property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |
| 2 | show | past | the king not said here | man | with ferocious joy; to the strangers | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to stranger=Recipient | |||
| 3 | visit | past · progressive | the strangers | man's court | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Co-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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