The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 111
Early one morning King Archidej sat thoughtfully at his window gazing out to sea.
Who acts: King · What happens: sit, gaze out · To what, where: window
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. 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 | Early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 morning | nummod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | nsubj |
| 5 | Archidej | Archidej | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 King | flat |
| 6 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | thoughtfully | thoughtfully | ADV | _ | 6 sat | advmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 window | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 window | nmod:poss |
| 10 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | obl |
| 11 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 sat | advcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 gazing | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 sea | case |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gazing | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | King | king's window | morning | thoughtfully property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location | ||
| 2 | gaze out | gerund | King not said here | to sea | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to sea=Theme |
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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