The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 80
The king was beside himself with fury and did not know what to do, when the Lord Chamberlain interfered:
Who acts: king · What happens: be, not know, do, interfere · 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 himself | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 himself | cop |
| 4 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 5 himself | case |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 interfered | nsubj:outer |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 fury | case |
| 7 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 himself | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 know | cc |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 know | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 know | advmod |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 himself | conj |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 do | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 do | mark |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 know | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 interfered | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 interfered | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Chamberlain | det |
| 18 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Chamberlain | compound |
| 19 | Chamberlain | Chamberlain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 interfered | nsubj |
| 20 | interfered | interfere | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 interfered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king | beside king; with fury | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | the king not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | interfere | past | king | tree rules |
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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