The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 66
In spite of what the soldiers had said, the boy knew no more magic than the king did, and his task seemed more hopeless than before.
Who acts: soldiers, boy, king, task · What happens: say, know, do, seem, task · To what, where: more magic, spite · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (soldiers, boy, king, task), 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 | _ | 2 spite | case |
| 2 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 knew | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 what | case |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 spite | nmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 soldiers | det |
| 6 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | aux |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 spite | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 boy | det |
| 11 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 knew | nsubj |
| 12 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | no | no | ADV | _ | 14 more | advmod |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 magic | amod |
| 15 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 knew | obj |
| 16 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 19 did | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 did | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 knew | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 seemed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 seemed | cc |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 task | nmod:poss |
| 23 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 seemed | nsubj |
| 24 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 knew | parataxis |
| 25 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 hopeless | advmod |
| 26 | hopeless | hopeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 seemed | xcomp |
| 27 | than | than | ADP | _ | 28 before | case |
| 28 | before | before | ADV | _ | 26 hopeless | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | the soldiers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | know | past | the boy | more magic | spite | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer magic=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | do | past | the king | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | seem | past | king's task | hopeless property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | task | king | nom task «act 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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