The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 107
It was the custom of that city that the officer for the day of the palace guards should receive all his food direct from the king’s kitchen.
Who acts: thought, officer · What happens: be, receive · To what, where: custom, food
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 (thought, officer), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 custom | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 custom | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 custom | det |
| 4 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 city | case |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 city | det |
| 7 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 custom | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 receive | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 officer | det |
| 10 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 receive | nsubj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 day | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 officer | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 guards | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 guards | det |
| 16 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 guards | compound |
| 17 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 day | nmod |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 receive | aux |
| 19 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 custom | acl |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 food | det:predet |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 food | nmod:poss |
| 22 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 receive | obj |
| 23 | direct | direct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 receive | xcomp |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 kitchen | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 king | det |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 kitchen | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 king | case |
| 28 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 direct | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 custom | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | thought | the custom | of that city | tree rules | |||
| 2 | receive | should | the officer for the day of the palace guards | Nur's food | direct property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |
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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