The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 130
The king, who was still truly grieved for his daughter's loss, answered quickly:
Who acts: king · What happens: grieve, answer · To what, where: king
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. 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 | 15 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 grieved | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 grieved | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 grieved | aux |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 grieved | advmod |
| 7 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 8 grieved | advmod |
| 8 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 king | acl:relcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 loss | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 11 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 loss | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 daughter | case |
| 13 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grieved | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 king | punct |
| 15 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 15 answered | advmod |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grieve | past · passive | the king | still | for king's daughter's loss; truly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the king | quickly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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