The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 70
He looked so sad that his daughter noticed it, and inquired the reason.
Who acts: king, daughter · What happens: look, notice, inquire · To what, where: difference, reason
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, daughter), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 sad | advmod |
| 4 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looked | xcomp |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 noticed | mark |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 noticed | nsubj |
| 8 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sad | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 noticed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 inquired | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 inquired | cc |
| 12 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 reason | det |
| 14 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 inquired | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | king | sad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | notice | past | king's daughter | difference | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | inquire speech: other | past | king not said here | the reason | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent reason=Recipient |
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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