The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 89
The king thought and thought, frowned hard and rubbed his ear.
Who acts: king · What happens: think, frown, rub · To what, where: ear
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 thought | cc |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 frowned | punct |
| 7 | frowned | frown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 thought | xcomp |
| 8 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 frowned | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rubbed | cc |
| 10 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 frowned | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 ear | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rubbed | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the king | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the king not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | frown | participle | the king not said here | hard property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | rub | past | the king not said here | king's ear | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ear=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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