The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 19
After the marriage the king ceased to have any will of his own and did nothing without consulting his wife.
What happens: cease, have, do, consult · To what, where: king, any, nothing, wife
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 marriage | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 marriage | det |
| 3 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 own | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 own | nsubj |
| 6 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 king | acl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 have | mark |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ceased | xcomp |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 have | obj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 own | aux |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 own | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 own | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 did | cc |
| 15 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 own | conj |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 did | obj |
| 17 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 18 consulting | mark |
| 18 | consulting | consult | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 did | advcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wife | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 consulting | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 own | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | participle | the king not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | any | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Patient | |||||
| 3 | do | past | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | consult | gerund | messenger's wife | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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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