The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 104
The king’s heart was sorrowful as he read, for he was grateful to the lad for what he had done to help him; but the boy only laughed, and bade the king fear nothing, but to search the town instantly for two youths just like each other, and he would paint himself a mask that was just like them.
Who acts: heart, boy, bade, that · What happens: be, read, do, help, laugh, search · To what, where: heart, town
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, boy, bade, that), 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 | 4 heart | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sorrowful | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sorrowful | cop |
| 6 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 read | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 read | nsubj |
| 9 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sorrowful | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 grateful | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 grateful | case |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 grateful | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 grateful | cop |
| 14 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 read | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 lad | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lad | det |
| 17 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grateful | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 what | case |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 grateful | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 done | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 done | aux |
| 22 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 what | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 help | mark |
| 24 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 done | advcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 help | obj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 laughed | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 laughed | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 boy | det |
| 29 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 laughed | nsubj |
| 30 | only | only | ADV | _ | 31 laughed | advmod |
| 31 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sorrowful | parataxis |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 nothing | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 nothing | cc |
| 34 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 nothing | nsubj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 fear | det |
| 36 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 fear | compound |
| 37 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 nothing | compound |
| 38 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 31 laughed | parataxis |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 search | punct |
| 40 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 42 search | cc |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 search | mark |
| 42 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 laughed | conj |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 town | det |
| 44 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 search | obj |
| 45 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 42 search | advmod |
| 46 | for | for | ADP | _ | 48 youths | case |
| 47 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 48 youths | nummod |
| 48 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 search | obl |
| 49 | just | just | ADV | _ | 51 each | advmod |
| 50 | like | like | ADP | _ | 51 each | case |
| 51 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 42 search | obl |
| 52 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 each | fixed |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 paint | punct |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 paint | cc |
| 55 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 57 paint | nsubj |
| 56 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 57 paint | aux |
| 57 | paint | paint | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 search | conj |
| 58 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 57 paint | obj |
| 59 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 60 mask | det |
| 60 | mask | mask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 paint | obj |
| 61 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 65 them | nsubj |
| 62 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 65 them | cop |
| 63 | just | just | ADV | _ | 65 them | advmod |
| 64 | like | like | ADP | _ | 65 them | case |
| 65 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 60 mask | nmod |
| 66 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sorrowful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king's heart | sorrowful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | read | past | heart | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | heart | to the lad; grateful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | past · perfect | heart | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | help | to-infinitive | heart not said here | heart | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | laugh | past | the boy | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | search | to-infinitive | the boy not said here | the town | for two youths; like each; instantly property | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent town=Location for youth=Theme | |||
| 8 | paint | would | bade | heart | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient mask=Result | ||||
| 9 | is | past | that | like women = woman | 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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