The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 72
“It would be a hard choice,” thought the king as he rode home.
Who acts: Happiness, hard choice, choice · What happens: be, think, ride · To what, where: hard choice, 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 (Happiness, hard choice, choice), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 choice | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 choice | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 choice | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 choice | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 choice | det |
| 6 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 choice | amod |
| 7 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 choice | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 choice | punct |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | obj |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 rode | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 rode | nsubj |
| 15 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 16 | home | home | ADV | _ | 15 rode | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | would | Happiness | a hard choice | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | a hard choice | the king | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent king=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ride | past | choice | home property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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