The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 5
One day his queen presented him with a baby daughter as beautiful as the dawn, and the king himself was so happy and delighted that, for a whole week, he forgot to hunt, and spent the time in public and private rejoicing.
Who acts: queen, king · What happens: present, be, forget, not hunt, spend · To what, where: king, public rejoicing
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 (queen, king), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 presented | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 queen | nmod:poss |
| 4 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 presented | nsubj |
| 5 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 presented | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 daughter | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 daughter | det |
| 9 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 daughter | compound |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 presented | obl |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 beautiful | advmod |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 daughter | amod |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 dawn | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dawn | det |
| 15 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 beautiful | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 happy | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 happy | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 happy | nsubj |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 19 king | nmod:unmarked |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 happy | cop |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 happy | advmod |
| 23 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 presented | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 delighted | cc |
| 25 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 happy | conj |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 forgot | mark |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 that | punct |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 week | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 week | det |
| 30 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 week | amod |
| 31 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 forgot | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 week | punct |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 forgot | nsubj |
| 34 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 happy | advcl |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 hunt | mark |
| 36 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 forgot | xcomp |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 spent | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 spent | cc |
| 39 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 presented | conj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 time | det |
| 41 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 spent | obj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 rejoicing | case |
| 43 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 rejoicing | amod |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 private | cc |
| 45 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 public | conj |
| 46 | rejoicing | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 spent | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 presented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | past | king's queen | king | day | with a baby daughter | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with daughter=Theme | ||
| 2 | is | past | the king king | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the king king not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | forget | past | king | week | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not hunt | to-infinitive | king not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | spend | past | king's queen not said here | public rejoicing | time | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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