The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 24
But the king would not listen to his son’s voice, for he had always been accustomed to depend on his own judgment.
Who acts: king · What happens: not listen, accustom, depend, judge · To what, where: king
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 listen | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 listen | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 listen | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 listen | advmod |
| 6 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 voice | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 voice | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 son | case |
| 11 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 listen | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 accustomed | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 accustomed | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 accustomed | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 accustomed | aux |
| 16 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 18 accustomed | advmod |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 accustomed | aux:pass |
| 18 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 listen | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 depend | mark |
| 20 | depend | depend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 accustomed | xcomp |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 judgment | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 judgment | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 judgment | amod |
| 24 | judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 depend | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not listen | would | the king | to king's son's voice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to voice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | accustom | past · perfect · passive | king | always property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | depend | to-infinitive | on king's own judgment | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on judgment=Theme | |||||
| 4 | judge | king | nom judgment «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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