The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 101
The king was, of course, obliged to take some notice of this brave deed, and as a reward made him one of his own attendants.
Who acts: reward · What happens: oblige, take, make, notice · To what, where: king, notice, one, brave deed
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reward), 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 | 8 obliged | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 obliged | aux:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 obliged | punct |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 8 obliged | advmod |
| 6 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 of | fixed |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 obliged | punct |
| 8 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 take | mark |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 obliged | advcl |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 notice | det |
| 12 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 deed | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 deed | det |
| 15 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 deed | amod |
| 16 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 notice | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 made | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 made | cc |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 made | mark |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 reward | det |
| 21 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | nsubj |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 obliged | advcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 made | obj |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 made | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 attendants | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 27 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 attendants | amod |
| 28 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 one | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | past · passive | the king | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | some notice of this brave deed | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | past | a reward | one of king's own attendants | king | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary one=Product | |||
| 4 | notice | this brave deed | nom notice «communication transitive»: of=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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