The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 11
The king was much vexed; he drove further on till they came to a splendid castle, all of gold, and then he said:
Who acts: king, turns · What happens: vex, drive, come, say · To what, where: king, splendid castle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, turns), 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 | 5 vexed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 vexed | aux:pass |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 vexed | advmod |
| 5 | vexed | vex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 said | ccomp |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 drove | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 drove | nsubj |
| 8 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 vexed | conj |
| 9 | further | further | ADV | _ | 10 on | advmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADV | _ | 8 drove | advmod |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 came | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 drove | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 castle | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 castle | det |
| 16 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 castle | amod |
| 17 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 all | punct |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 castle | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 gold | case |
| 21 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 all | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 said | cc |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 said | advmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 said | nsubj |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vex | past · passive | the king | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | drive | past | king | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | past | turns = turn | a splendid castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | king | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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