The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 1
When the old king saw this he foamed with rage, stared wildly about, flung himself on the ground and died.
Who acts: old king, king · What happens: see, foam, stare, fling, die · To what, where: this, king, ground
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old king, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 king | amod |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 foamed | advcl |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 foamed | nsubj |
| 8 | foamed | foam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 rage | case |
| 10 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 foamed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stared | punct |
| 12 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 foamed | conj |
| 13 | wildly | wildly | ADV | _ | 12 stared | advmod |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 stared | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 flung | punct |
| 16 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 foamed | parataxis |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 flung | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 ground | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ground | det |
| 20 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flung | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 died | cc |
| 22 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 flung | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 foamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the old king | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | foam | past | king | with rage | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with rage=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stare | past | king not said here | about, wildly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | fling | past | king | the ground | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on ground=Destination | ||||
| 5 | die | past | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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