The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 74
Was ever any king so happy as Balancin when he satisfied himself of this?
Who acts: king · What happens: be, satisfy · To what, where: king
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 king | cop |
| 2 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 king | advmod |
| 3 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 happy | nsubj |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 happy | advmod |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 Balancin | case |
| 8 | Balancin | Balancin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 happy | obl |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 satisfied | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 satisfied | nsubj |
| 11 | satisfied | satisfy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 happy | advcl |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 satisfied | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 this | case |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 satisfied | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | any king | ever | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | satisfy | past | king | king | of this | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer |
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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