The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 7
“Why it is more splendid than my own!” exclaimed the king, looking round on all the beautiful things that filled the hall.
Who acts: palace, king, beautiful things · What happens: be, exclaim, look round, fill · To what, where: hall · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (palace, king, beautiful things), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 splendid | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 splendid | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 splendid | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 splendid | cop |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 splendid | advmod |
| 6 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 own | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 own | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 splendid | obl |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 splendid | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 splendid | punct |
| 12 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 exclaimed | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 looking | punct |
| 16 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 exclaimed | advcl |
| 17 | round | round | ADV | _ | 16 looking | advmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 things | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 things | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 things | det |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 things | amod |
| 22 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 looking | obl |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 filled | nsubj |
| 24 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 things | acl:relcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hall | det |
| 26 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 filled | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | palace | than my own; splendid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look round | gerund | the king not said here | on all beautiful things; round property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on thing=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fill | past | all beautiful things | the hall | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hall=Patient |
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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