The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 35
In time, when the old king died, the shepherd succeeded him.
Who acts: old king, shepherd · What happens: die, succeed · To what, where: 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 (old king, shepherd), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 time | case |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 succeeded | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 time | punct |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 died | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 king | amod |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 died | nsubj |
| 8 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 succeeded | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 died | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shepherd | det |
| 11 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 succeeded | nsubj |
| 12 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 succeeded | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 succeeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | the old king | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | succeed | past | the shepherd | king | time | 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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