The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 84
Of course when the king marvelled and praised Moti’s wisdom, everybody else did so too; and, whilst the Afghans went off crestfallen, Moti took the horse and entered the king’s service.
Who acts: king, everybody, Afghans, Moti · What happens: marvell, praise, do, go off, take, enter · To what, where: wisdom, horse, service
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, everybody, Afghans, 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 | Of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 6 marvelled | advmod |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 marvelled | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 marvelled | nsubj |
| 6 | marvelled | marvell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 praised | cc |
| 8 | praised | praise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 marvelled | conj |
| 9 | Moti | Moti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 wisdom | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Moti | case |
| 11 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 praised | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 did | punct |
| 13 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 15 did | nsubj |
| 14 | else | else | ADV | _ | 13 everybody | advmod |
| 15 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 praised | parataxis |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 too | advmod |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 did | advmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 went | cc |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 and | punct |
| 21 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 24 went | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Afghans | det |
| 23 | Afghans | Afghan | PROPN | Number=Plur | 24 went | nsubj |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 marvelled | conj |
| 25 | off | off | ADP | _ | 24 went | compound:prt |
| 26 | crestfallen | crestfallen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 went | xcomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 took | punct |
| 28 | Moti | Moti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 took | nsubj |
| 29 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 marvelled | parataxis |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 horse | det |
| 31 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 took | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 entered | cc |
| 33 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 took | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 king | det |
| 35 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 service | nmod:poss |
| 36 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 35 king | case |
| 37 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 entered | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 marvelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marvell | past | the king | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | praise | past | the king not said here | Moti's wisdom | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | past | everybody | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go off | past | the Afghans | crestfallen property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | take | past | Moti | the horse | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination | ||||
| 6 | enter | past | Moti not said here | the king's service | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme service=Destination | ||||
| 7 | service | the king | nom service «act transitive»: poss=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 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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