The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 100
A week or two after this incident the king sent for Moti, who on arrival found his master in despair.
Who acts: king, Moti · What happens: send, find · To what, where: master, arrival
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Moti), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 week | det |
| 2 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 two | cc |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 week | conj |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 incident | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 incident | det |
| 7 | incident | incident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 week | nmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sent | nsubj |
| 10 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 Moti | case |
| 12 | Moti | Moti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sent | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 found | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 found | nsubj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 arrival | case |
| 16 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 found | obl |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Moti | acl:relcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 master | nmod:poss |
| 19 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 found | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 despair | case |
| 21 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 found | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the king | week | for Moti | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | find | past | Moti | Moti's master | arrival | in despair | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Topic |
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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