The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 37
Here he took service in the king’s palace, and as no one troubled themselves about him he lived quietly on.
Who acts: boy, one · What happens: take, trouble, live · To what, where: service, palace, princes
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 (boy, one), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 palace | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 palace | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 king | case |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 troubled | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 troubled | cc |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 troubled | mark |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 troubled | nsubj |
| 15 | troubled | trouble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 16 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 troubled | obj |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 troubled | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lived | nsubj |
| 20 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 troubled | conj |
| 21 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 22 on | advmod |
| 22 | on | on | ADV | _ | 20 lived | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | boy | service | the king's palace; here | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent service=Value in palace=Location | |||
| 2 | trouble | past | no one | princes = prince | about boy | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | live | past | boy | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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