The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 2
He brought him to the king, whose fury was greater than ever, but who cried:
Who acts: shepherd, fury · What happens: bring, be, cry · To what, where: him, king
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 (shepherd, fury), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 brought | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 king | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brought | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 greater | punct |
| 8 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 9 fury | nmod:poss |
| 9 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 greater | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 greater | cop |
| 11 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 king | amod |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 ever | case |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 greater | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cried | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 cried | cc |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 cried | nsubj |
| 17 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 brought | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | shepherd | him = he | the king | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to king=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | past | fury | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP 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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