The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 96
The fact is, that the king had hoped to have got him killed in some fight or another; but, seeing that, on the contrary, he throve on hard knocks, he was now determined to try more direct and desperate methods.
Who acts: king, fact · What happens: be, get, kill, see, throve, try · To what, where: fact, king, fight, that, contrary, hard knocks
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, fact), 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 fact | det |
| 2 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 killed | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 hoped | cop |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hoped | punct |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 hoped | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hoped | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hoped | aux |
| 9 | hoped | hope | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 fact | acl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 got | mark |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 got | aux |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 hoped | advcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 got | obj |
| 14 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 fight | case |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 fight | det |
| 17 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 killed | obl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 another | cc |
| 19 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 fight | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 throve | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 throve | cc |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 but | punct |
| 23 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 throve | advcl |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 seeing | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 seeing | punct |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 contrary | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 contrary | det |
| 28 | contrary | contrary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 seeing | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 seeing | punct |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 throve | nsubj |
| 31 | throve | throve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 killed | conj |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 knocks | case |
| 33 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 knocks | amod |
| 34 | knocks | knock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 throve | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 determined | punct |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 determined | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 determined | cop |
| 38 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 determined | advmod |
| 39 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 throve | conj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 try | mark |
| 41 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 determined | xcomp |
| 42 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 43 direct | advmod |
| 43 | direct | direct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 methods | amod |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 desperate | cc |
| 45 | desperate | desperate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 direct | conj |
| 46 | methods | method | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 try | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | the king | the fact not said here | hope property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive · perfect | the king not said here | king | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | kill | past | the fact | some fight | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | see | gerund | king not said here | that | the contrary | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | throve | past | king | hard knocks | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | past | king | now | determined property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | try | to-infinitive | king not said here | direct methods | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent method=Eventuality |
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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