The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 110
All this the sultan told Labakan, and was much pleased by his appearance and dignified manner.
Who acts: sultan · What happens: tell, be, dignify · To what, where: Labakan, manner · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sultan), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 sultan | det:predet |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 All | obj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sultan | det |
| 4 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | nsubj |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Labakan | Labakan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 told | iobj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pleased | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pleased | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 pleased | cop |
| 10 | much | much | ADV | _ | 11 pleased | advmod |
| 11 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 told | conj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 appearance | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 14 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pleased | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dignified | cc |
| 16 | dignified | dignify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | conj |
| 17 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dignified | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | all sultan | Labakan | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent labakan=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | all sultan not said here | by sultan's appearance; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dignify | past | all sultan not said here | manner | 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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