The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 41
The king was so eager to put it on that he hardly gave the physician time to finish.
Who acts: king · What happens: be, put, give, finish · To what, where: material
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. 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 eager | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 eager | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 eager | advmod |
| 5 | eager | eager | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 put | mark |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 eager | xcomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 put | obj |
| 9 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 13 gave | mark |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 gave | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 12 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 13 gave | advmod |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 put | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 15 | physician | physician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 time | compound |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 finish | mark |
| 18 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 time | acl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 eager | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king | eager property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put | to-infinitive | the king not said here | material | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | ||||
| 3 | give | past | king | time | hardly property | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | finish | to-infinitive | king not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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