The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 90
After his death, Pinkel became king; and let up hope that he gave up his bad and thievish ways, and ruled his subjects well.
Who acts: Pinkel, king · What happens: become, let up, give up, rule, die · To what, where: king, hope, bad ways, subjects
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 (Pinkel, 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 death | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 death | nmod:poss |
| 3 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 became | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 death | punct |
| 5 | Pinkel | Pinkel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 became | nsubj |
| 6 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 became | xcomp |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 let | cc |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 became | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 let | compound:prt |
| 12 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 let | obj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 gave | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | nsubj |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 let | advcl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 gave | compound:prt |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 ways | nmod:poss |
| 18 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ways | amod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 thievish | cc |
| 20 | thievish | thievish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bad | conj |
| 21 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 gave | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ruled | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ruled | cc |
| 24 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 became | advcl |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 26 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 ruled | obj |
| 27 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 ruled | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Pinkel | king | after king's death | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | let up | infinitive | Pinkel not said here | hope | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give up | past | Pinkel | king's bad ways | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Source | ||||
| 4 | rule | past | Pinkel not said here | king's subjects | well property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 5 | die | king | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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