The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 50
The king did not believe him; in fact he paid no attention at all, and hurried off, leaving the poor boy speechless with despair in the corner.
Who acts: king · What happens: not believe, pay, hurry off, leave · To what, where: prince, attention, fact, poor boy
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. 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 | 5 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 believe | advmod |
| 5 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 believe | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 paid | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 fact | case |
| 9 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 paid | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 paid | nsubj |
| 11 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | parataxis |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 attention | det |
| 13 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 paid | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 all | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 paid | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hurried | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hurried | cc |
| 18 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 believe | parataxis |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 hurried | compound:prt |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 leaving | punct |
| 21 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 hurried | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 boy | det |
| 23 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 boy | amod |
| 24 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 leaving | obj |
| 25 | speechless | speechless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 boy | amod |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 despair | case |
| 27 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 leaving | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 corner | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 corner | det |
| 30 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 despair | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe | past · do-support | the king | prince | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | pay | past | king | no attention | fact | at all | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset | ||
| 3 | hurry off | participle | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | leave | gerund | the poor boy | with despair in the corner | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient with despair=Theme |
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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