The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 14
Next morning he was brought bound before the king, who was so pleased with the boy that he gave him a thousand crowns at once.
Who acts: king, Man · What happens: bring, be, give · To what, where: Next morning, thousand crowns, boy
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 (king, 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | aux:pass |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | bound | bound | ADV | _ | 5 brought | advmod |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 king | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pleased | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 pleased | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 pleased | cop |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 pleased | advmod |
| 14 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 king | parataxis |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 boy | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 boy | det |
| 17 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pleased | obl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 gave | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 gave | nsubj |
| 20 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 pleased | advcl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 gave | iobj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 thousand | det |
| 23 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 crowns | nummod |
| 24 | crowns | crown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 gave | obj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 once | case |
| 26 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 24 crowns | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | Next morning | before the king | bound property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before king=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | past | the king | with the boy; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | past | Man | thousand crowns | boy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient crown=Theme at once=Asset |
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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