The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 106
The old king was Sached, Sultan of the Wachabites.
Who acts: old king · What happens: be · To what, where: Sached
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old 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 | 3 king | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Sached | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Sached | cop |
| 5 | Sached | Sached | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sultan | punct |
| 7 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Sached | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Wachabites | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Wachabites | det |
| 10 | Wachabites | Wachabite | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 Sultan | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Sached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the old king | Sached | 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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