The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 22
The king who lived in it did not care about looking after his country, and seeing that his people lived cheerful and contented lives.
Who acts: king, people · What happens: live, not care, look, see, content · To what, where: length, lives
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, people), 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 | 9 care | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 king | acl:relcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lived | obl |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 care | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 care | advmod |
| 9 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 11 looking | mark |
| 11 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 care | advcl |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 country | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 country | nmod:poss |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looking | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seeing | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 seeing | cc |
| 17 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 care | advcl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 lived | mark |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 people | nmod:poss |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 lived | nsubj |
| 21 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 seeing | advcl |
| 22 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 lived | xcomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 contented | cc |
| 24 | contented | content | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 lived | conj |
| 25 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 contented | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 care | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the king | length | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location | ||||
| 2 | not care | past · do-support | the king | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | look | gerund | the king not said here | after king's country | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | see | gerund | the king not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | live | past | king's people | cheerful property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | content | past | king's people not said here | lives | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus life=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 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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