The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 183
When the king got the governor’s letter, he grew so red in the face that everyone thought he was going to have apoplexy.
Who acts: king, everyone, governor · What happens: get, grow, think, go, have, letter · To what, where: letter, apoplexy · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (king, everyone, governor), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 grew | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 governor | det |
| 6 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 letter | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 governor | case |
| 8 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 grew | nsubj |
| 11 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 red | advmod |
| 13 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 grew | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 face | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 face | det |
| 16 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 red | obl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 thought | mark |
| 18 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 19 thought | nsubj |
| 19 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 red | advcl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 going | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 going | aux |
| 22 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 thought | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 have | mark |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 going | xcomp |
| 25 | apoplexy | apoplexy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 have | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the king | the governor's letter | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer letter=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | king | red property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | everyone | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go | past · progressive | king | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | have | to-infinitive | king not said here | apoplexy | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apoplexy=Patient | ||||
| 6 | letter | the governor | nom letter «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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