The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 141
But there was nothing for it but to do the king’s bidding, and he felt that the sooner he left the palace the better.
Who acts: king · What happens: be, leave, bid · To what, where: palace
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 was | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 felt | cop |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 was | nsubj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 nothing | nmod |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 bidding | cc |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 bidding | aux |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bidding | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 king | case |
| 13 | bidding | bidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nothing | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 felt | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 felt | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 felt | nsubj |
| 17 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 left | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sooner | det |
| 20 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 left | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 left | nsubj |
| 22 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 felt | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 palace | det |
| 24 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 left | obj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 better | det |
| 26 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 left | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | king | feel property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | king | the palace | soon property | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent palace=Theme good=Attribute | |||
| 3 | bid | the king | nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=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 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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