The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 45
By-and-by the story came to the king’s ears, and he thought that a man who was so clever was just the man to govern the country; so he made him his minister, and after the king himself there was no one so great as he.
Who acts: man · What happens: come, think, be, govern, make · To what, where: ears, man, country, minister, king, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 7 story | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 story | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 story | cc |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 and | punct |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 story | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 ears | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ears | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 king | case |
| 13 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 came | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thought | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 thought | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 thought | nsubj |
| 17 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 man | mark |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 man | nsubj |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 clever | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 clever | cop |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 clever | advmod |
| 24 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | acl:relcl |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 man | cop |
| 26 | just | just | ADV | _ | 28 man | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 man | det |
| 28 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thought | ccomp |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 govern | mark |
| 30 | govern | govern | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 man | acl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 country | det |
| 32 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 govern | obj |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 made | punct |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 made | advmod |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 made | nsubj |
| 36 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 made | obj |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 minister | nmod:poss |
| 39 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 made | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 one | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 one | cc |
| 42 | after | after | ADP | _ | 44 king | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 king | det |
| 44 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 one | obl |
| 45 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 47 was | nsubj |
| 46 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 47 was | expl |
| 47 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 one | cop |
| 48 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 49 one | det |
| 49 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | parataxis |
| 50 | so | so | ADV | _ | 51 great | advmod |
| 51 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 one | amod |
| 52 | as | as | ADP | _ | 53 he | case |
| 53 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 great | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the king's ears | by the story | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ear=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | man | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | a man | clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | a man | the man | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | govern | to-infinitive | man not said here | the country | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent country=Theme | ||||
| 6 | make | past | man | man's minister | king | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary minister=Product | |||
| 7 | is a | past | no one | after the king | 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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