The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 47
At this news the king was very angry, for it had never entered his head that anyone BUT a prince would seek to woo his daughter.
Who acts: king, anyone · What happens: be, not enter, seek, woo · To what, where: news, daughter
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, anyone), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 news | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 news | det |
| 3 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 angry | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 angry | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 angry | cop |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 angry | advmod |
| 8 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 entered | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 entered | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 entered | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 entered | aux |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 entered | advmod |
| 14 | entered | enter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 angry | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 entered | obj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 seek | mark |
| 18 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 23 seek | nsubj |
| 19 | BUT | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 prince | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 prince | det |
| 21 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 anyone | conj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 seek | aux |
| 23 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 entered | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 woo | mark |
| 25 | woo | woo | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 seek | xcomp |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 27 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 woo | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king | this news | angry property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not enter | past · perfect · passive | news | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | seek | would | anyone | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | woo not said to happen | to-infinitive | anyone not said here | prince's daughter | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
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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