The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 78
And now there was this fresh misfortune, for how was he to make a coat of stone?
Who acts: king · What happens: be · To what, where: fresh misfortune
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 misfortune | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 was | advmod |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 misfortune | cop |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 misfortune | det |
| 6 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 misfortune | amod |
| 7 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 make | mark |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 make | advmod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 make | cop |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 make | nsubj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 make | mark |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 misfortune | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 coat | det |
| 16 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 stone | case |
| 18 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 coat | nmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 misfortune | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this fresh misfortune | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | past | king | make property | tree rules |
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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