The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 75
But know, Lady Frog, that a king can seldom do as he wishes, but must be bound by the desires of his subjects.
Who acts: king, desires · What happens: know, do, wish, bind, desire · To what, where: Lady Frog, subjects
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, desires), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 know | cc |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Frog | punct |
| 4 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Frog | compound |
| 5 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 know | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 do | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | aux |
| 11 | seldom | seldom | ADV | _ | 12 do | advmod |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 know | parataxis |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 wishes | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wishes | nsubj |
| 15 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bound | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 bound | cc |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 bound | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 bound | aux:pass |
| 20 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 know | conj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 desires | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 desires | det |
| 23 | desires | desire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 bound | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 subjects | case |
| 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 | 23 desires | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | Lady Frog | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer frog=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | do | can | a king | seldom property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | wish | present | king | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | bind | must · passive | the desires of king's subjects | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | desire | king's subjects | nom desire «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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