The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 59
At this sight the king was yet more astonished at the cleverness of his steward, and at once promoted him to be the keeper of his jewels.
Who acts: king · What happens: be, promote · To what, where: sight, king, keeper
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 sight | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 sight | det |
| 3 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 astonished | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 astonished | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 astonished | cop |
| 7 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 8 more | advmod |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 astonished | advmod |
| 9 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 cleverness | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cleverness | det |
| 12 | cleverness | cleverness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 astonished | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 steward | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 steward | nmod:poss |
| 15 | steward | steward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cleverness | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 promoted | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 promoted | cc |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 once | case |
| 19 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 20 promoted | obl |
| 20 | promoted | promote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 astonished | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 promoted | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 keeper | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 keeper | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 keeper | det |
| 25 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 promoted | ccomp |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 jewels | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 jewels | nmod:poss |
| 28 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 keeper | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king | this sight | at the cleverness of king's steward; astonished property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | promote | past | the king not said here | king | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | the king not said here | the keeper | of king's jewels | 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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