The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 90
The king hesitated at this proposal.
What happens: hesitate · To what, where: king, proposal
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | root | root |
| 3 | hesitated | hesitate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 king | acl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 proposal | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 proposal | det |
| 6 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hesitated | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 king | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hesitate | participle | the king not said here | this proposal | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at proposal=Location |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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