The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 4
In this way he found out what the common people said about him, and how his judges and governors fulfilled their duties.
Who acts: king, common people, judges · What happens: find out, say, fulfil · To what, where: way, duties · 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, common people, judges), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 found | compound:prt |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 said | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 people | det |
| 9 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 people | amod |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | parataxis |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fulfilled | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fulfilled | cc |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 fulfilled | advmod |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 judges | nmod:poss |
| 18 | judges | judge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 fulfilled | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 governors | cc |
| 20 | governors | governor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 judges | conj |
| 21 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | conj |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 duties | nmod:poss |
| 23 | duties | duty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 fulfilled | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find out | past | king | this way | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the common people | about king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 3 | fulfil | past | king's judges and governors | judges's duties | tree rules |
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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