The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 80
The Sultan could not imagine how he had found out, but he did not declare war.
Who acts: Sultan, father · What happens: not imagine, find out, not declare · To what, where: war
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 (Sultan, father), 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 Sultan | det |
| 2 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 imagine | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 imagine | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 imagine | advmod |
| 5 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 found | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 found | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | aux |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 imagine | ccomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 found | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 declare | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 declare | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 declare | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 declare | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 declare | advmod |
| 16 | declare | declare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 imagine | conj |
| 17 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 declare | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not imagine | could | the Sultan | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find out | past · perfect | father | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not declare speech: other | past · do-support | father | war | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Attribute |
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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