The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 75
Now the king was so delighted with the table, and the dinners it gave him, that when the three days were over he could not make up his mind to part with it.
Who acts: king, dinners, that · What happens: be, give, not be, mind · To what, where: king, part
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, dinners, that), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 delighted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 delighted | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 delighted | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 delighted | advmod |
| 6 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 table | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 table | det |
| 9 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 delighted | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gave | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dinners | det |
| 13 | dinners | dinner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 gave | nsubj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | nsubj |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 delighted | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | iobj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 make | punct |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 make | nsubj |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 make | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 days | det |
| 21 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 days | nummod |
| 22 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 make | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 make | cop |
| 24 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 28 make | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 make | nsubj |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 make | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 make | advmod |
| 28 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 gave | advcl |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 make | compound:prt |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 mind | nmod:poss |
| 31 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 make | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 part | mark |
| 33 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 make | xcomp |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 it | case |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 part | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king | now | with the table; delighted property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give | past | the dinners | king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not is | could · past | that | part with dinner | make property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | mind | king | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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