The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 25
There was grief all over the palace when the king’s command was known, for he was a great favourite.
Who acts: grief, king · What happens: be, know, command · To what, where: palace, command · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (grief, 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 palace | advmod |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 palace | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 known | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 command | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 king | case |
| 12 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 known | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 known | aux:pass |
| 14 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 palace | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 favourite | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 favourite | case |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 favourite | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 favourite | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 favourite | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 favourite | amod |
| 21 | favourite | favourite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 known | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | grief | the palace; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over palace=Location | ||||
| 2 | know | past · passive | the king's command | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is | past | king | for a great favourite | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | command | the king | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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