The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 28
The king was so delighted with the goat that he always kept it by his side, night and day; and, as he had promised, Pinkel was made ruler over the third part of the kingdom.
Who acts: king · What happens: be, keep, promise, make · To what, where: wool, Pinkel, third part
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. 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 | 5 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 delighted | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 delighted | advmod |
| 5 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 goat | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 goat | det |
| 8 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 delighted | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 kept | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 kept | nsubj |
| 11 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 12 kept | advmod |
| 12 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 delighted | advcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 kept | obj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 side | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 side | nmod:poss |
| 16 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kept | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 night | punct |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 side | appos |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 day | cc |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 night | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 made | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 made | cc |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 and | punct |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 promised | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 promised | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 promised | aux |
| 27 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 made | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 promised | punct |
| 29 | Pinkel | Pinkel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 made | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 made | aux:pass |
| 31 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 delighted | conj |
| 32 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 made | xcomp |
| 33 | over | over | ADP | _ | 36 part | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 part | det |
| 35 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 36 part | amod |
| 36 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 made | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 kingdom | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 kingdom | det |
| 39 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 part | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king | with the goat; delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | king | wool | by king's side; always property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme by side=Location | |||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | past · perfect | king | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | make | past · passive | Pinkel | the third part of the kingdom | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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