The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 88
The king pointed out the two boxes to him, and he rose and went to the tables.
Who acts: king · What happens: point out, rise, go · To what, where: two boxes, king, tables
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 king | acl |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 pointed | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boxes | det |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 boxes | nummod |
| 7 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pointed | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 boxes | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rose | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rose | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 rose | nsubj |
| 13 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 rose | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 tables | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tables | det |
| 18 | tables | table | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 went | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point out | participle | the king not said here | the two boxes | king | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent box=Theme to he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | rise | past | the king | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go | past | the king not said here | the tables | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to table=Initial_Location |
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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