The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 31
The kings of Ireland and of Munster and Ulster, and their wives, soon came to visit them, and may every one that deserves it be as happy as the Brown Bear of Norway and his family.
Who acts: kings, one · What happens: come, visit, deserve, be · To what, where: kings, building
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kings, one), 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 kings | det |
| 2 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 came | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Ireland | case |
| 4 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 kings | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Munster | cc |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Munster | case |
| 7 | Munster | Munster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Ireland | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Ulster | cc |
| 9 | Ulster | Ulster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Munster | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wives | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wives | cc |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wives | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kings | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 kings | punct |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 came | advmod |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 visit | mark |
| 18 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 came | xcomp |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 visit | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 one | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 one | cc |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 one | aux |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 one | det |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | conj |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 deserves | nsubj |
| 26 | deserves | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 one | acl:relcl |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 deserves | obj |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 happy | cop |
| 29 | as | as | ADV | _ | 30 happy | advmod |
| 30 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 deserves | xcomp |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 34 Bear | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Bear | det |
| 33 | Brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Bear | amod |
| 34 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 happy | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Norway | case |
| 36 | Norway | Norway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Bear | nmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 family | cc |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 family | nmod:poss |
| 39 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Bear | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the kings of Ireland and Munster and Ulster and kings's wives | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | visit | to-infinitive | the kings of Ireland and Munster and Ulster and kings's wives not said here | kings = king | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | deserve | present | every one | building | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | infinitive | every one not said here | as the Brown Bear of Norway and Norway's family; happy property | 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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