The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 34
The king talked very pleasantly for a few miles, and when he thought that his new companion was quite at ease with him, he asked him what was the secret which had brought him into such trouble.
Who acts: king, new companion · What happens: talk, think, be, ask, bring · To what, where: ease, coachman, secret, such trouble · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (king, new companion), 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 talked | nsubj |
| 3 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 pleasantly | advmod |
| 5 | pleasantly | pleasantly | ADV | _ | 3 talked | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 miles | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 miles | det |
| 8 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 miles | amod |
| 9 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 talked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thought | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 thought | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thought | nsubj |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 talked | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 ease | mark |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 companion | nmod:poss |
| 17 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 companion | amod |
| 18 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ease | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 ease | cop |
| 20 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 22 ease | advmod |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 ease | case |
| 22 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thought | ccomp |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ease | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 asked | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 asked | nsubj |
| 27 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 talked | conj |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 asked | iobj |
| 29 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 35 brought | obj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 brought | aux:pass |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 secret | det |
| 32 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 brought | aux |
| 35 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 asked | ccomp |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 brought | obj |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 39 trouble | case |
| 38 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 trouble | amod |
| 39 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 brought | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 talked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past | the king | for a few miles; pleasantly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | king | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | king's new companion | ease | with king | tree rules | |||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | king | coachman | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the secret | such trouble | 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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