The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 25
He let the unhappy Omar be dragged from the hall, whilst he himself retired with Labakan to his own rooms, full of anger with the queen his wife, in spite of their many years of happy life together.
Who acts: king · What happens: let, drag, retire, spite · To what, where: unhappy Omar, hall, spite, many years
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 let | nsubj |
| 2 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Omar | det |
| 4 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Omar | amod |
| 5 | Omar | Omar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 dragged | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 dragged | aux:pass |
| 7 | dragged | drag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 let | xcomp |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 hall | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hall | det |
| 10 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dragged | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 retired | punct |
| 12 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 15 retired | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 retired | nsubj |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 13 he | nmod:unmarked |
| 15 | retired | retire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 let | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 Labakan | case |
| 17 | Labakan | Labakan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 retired | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 rooms | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 rooms | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 rooms | amod |
| 21 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 retired | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 full | punct |
| 23 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 rooms | amod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 anger | case |
| 25 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 full | obl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 queen | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 queen | det |
| 28 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 anger | nmod |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 wife | nmod:poss |
| 30 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 queen | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 spite | punct |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 spite | case |
| 33 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 retired | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 years | case |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 years | nmod:poss |
| 36 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 years | amod |
| 37 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 spite | nmod |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 life | case |
| 39 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 life | amod |
| 40 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 years | nmod |
| 41 | together | together | ADV | _ | 15 retired | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | king | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | drag | infinitive · passive | the unhappy Omar | the hall | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from hall=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | retire | past | king | spite of rooms's many years of happy life | with Labakan; to king's own rooms; together property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | spite | rooms's many years of happy life | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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