The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 27
When the first shock was over she began to think how she could manage to convince the king of his mistake.
Who acts: shock, king · What happens: be, think, manage, convince, mistake · To what, where: first shock, king · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (shock, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 shock | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 shock | amod |
| 4 | shock | shock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 When | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 began | cop |
| 6 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 8 began | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 began | nsubj |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shock | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 think | mark |
| 10 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 began | xcomp |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 manage | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 manage | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 manage | aux |
| 14 | manage | manage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 think | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 convince | mark |
| 16 | convince | convince | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 manage | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 convince | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 mistake | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mistake | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 king | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 When | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | shock | the first shock not said here | begin property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | shock not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | manage | could | shock | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | convince | to-infinitive | shock not said here | the king of king's mistake | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | mistake | king | nom mistake «act intransitive»: 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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