The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 27
But the man was sorry for him, and shot a dog and carried pieces of his lungs and liver to the king, who was satisfied, and did not trouble himself any more.
Who acts: man, king · What happens: be, shoot, carry, do · To what, where: dog, pieces, king, trouble
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 (man, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 sorry | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sorry | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sorry | cop |
| 5 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sorry | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shot | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shot | cc |
| 10 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sorry | parataxis |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 dog | det |
| 12 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shot | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 carried | cc |
| 14 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 shot | conj |
| 15 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 carried | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 lungs | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 lungs | nmod:poss |
| 18 | lungs | lung | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pieces | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 liver | cc |
| 20 | liver | liver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lungs | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 king | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 king | det |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carried | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 satisfied | punct |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 satisfied | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 satisfied | cop |
| 27 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 king | acl:relcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 did | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 did | cc |
| 30 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 shot | conj |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 trouble | advmod |
| 32 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 did | obj |
| 33 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 32 trouble | nmod:unmarked |
| 34 | any | any | ADV | _ | 35 more | advmod |
| 35 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 30 did | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the man | for king; sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shoot | past | a dog | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme | |||||
| 3 | carry | past | pieces of king's lungs and liver | the king | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent piece=Theme to king=Destination | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the king | satisfied property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do | past | trouble king | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Eventuality |
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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