The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 19
The king lay in bed sick with sorrow, and neither eating nor drinking, for he thought that his son had been killed by the queen.
Who acts: king, neither, queen · What happens: lie, eat, drink, think, kill · To what, where: bed, son · 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 (king, neither, queen), 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 | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 bed | case |
| 5 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obl |
| 6 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lay | xcomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 sorrow | case |
| 8 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sick | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 eating | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 eating | cc |
| 11 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 eating | nsubj |
| 12 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 lay | advcl |
| 13 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 14 drinking | cc |
| 14 | drinking | drink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 eating | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thought | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 thought | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 thought | nsubj |
| 18 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lay | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 killed | mark |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 son | nmod:poss |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 killed | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 killed | aux:pass |
| 24 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 thought | ccomp |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 queen | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 queen | det |
| 27 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 killed | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the king | bed | sick property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | |||
| 2 | eat | gerund | neither | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | drink | gerund | neither not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | king | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | kill | past · perfect · passive | the queen | king's son | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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