The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 59

The king sat deep in thought, looking now at his wife and now at Labakan, who was doing his best to hide his vexation at his own stupidity.

Who acts: king, wife · What happens: sit, look, do, hide, vex · To what, where: thought, best, vexation, own stupidity

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, wife), 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 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	deep	deep	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 thought	case
6	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 looking	punct
8	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sat	advcl
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 looking	advmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 wife	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wife	nmod:poss
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looking	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Labakan	cc
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 Labakan	advmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 Labakan	case
16	Labakan	Labakan	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 wife	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 doing	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 doing	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 doing	aux
20	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 wife	conj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 best	nmod:poss
22	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 doing	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 hide	mark
24	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 doing	advcl
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 vexation	nmod:poss
26	vexation	vexation	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hide	obj
27	at	at	ADP	_	30 stupidity	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 stupidity	nmod:poss
29	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 stupidity	amod
30	stupidity	stupidity	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hide	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the king		thought		deep property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in thought=Location
2	look	gerund	the king not said here			now	at king's wife and Labakan	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at wife=Theme
3	do	past · progressive	king's wife and Labakan	king's best				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
4	hide	to-infinitive	king's wife and Labakan not said here	king's vexation	king's own stupidity			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent vexation=Patient at stupidity=Location
5	vex		king					nom vexation «feeling 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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