The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 99
If the king, however, was before convinced that Moti was one of the wisest of men, he was now still more convinced that he was the bravest, and he increased his pay a hundredfold, so that our hero thought that he was the luckiest of men.
Who acts: Moti, hero · What happens: be, increase, pay, think · To what, where: one, hundredfold
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 (Moti, hero), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 king | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 convinced | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 9 convinced | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 convinced | cop |
| 8 | before | before | ADV | _ | 9 convinced | advmod |
| 9 | convinced | convinced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 one | mark |
| 11 | Moti | Moti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 one | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 one | cop |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 convinced | ccomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 wisest | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wisest | det |
| 16 | wisest | wise | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 one | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 men | case |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 wisest | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 convinced | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 convinced | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 convinced | cop |
| 22 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 convinced | advmod |
| 23 | still | still | ADV | _ | 24 more | advmod |
| 24 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 convinced | advmod |
| 25 | convinced | convinced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 convinced | conj |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 bravest | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 bravest | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 bravest | cop |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 bravest | det |
| 30 | bravest | brave | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 convinced | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 increased | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 increased | cc |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 increased | nsubj |
| 34 | increased | increase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 convinced | parataxis |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 pay | nmod:poss |
| 36 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 increased | xcomp |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 hundredfold | det |
| 38 | hundredfold | hundredfold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 pay | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 thought | punct |
| 40 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 44 thought | mark |
| 41 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 so | fixed |
| 42 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 hero | nmod:poss |
| 43 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 thought | nsubj |
| 44 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 increased | conj |
| 45 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 49 luckiest | mark |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 luckiest | nsubj |
| 47 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 luckiest | cop |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 luckiest | det |
| 49 | luckiest | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 44 thought | ccomp |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 men | case |
| 51 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 luckiest | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 convinced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | before, convinced, however property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Moti | one | of the wisest | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | past | Moti | now | convinced property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | past | Moti | brave property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | increase | past | Moti | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | pay | infinitive | Moti not said here | a hundredfold | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundredfold=Asset | ||||
| 7 | think speech: other | past | our hero | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | is | past | Moti | of men; lucky 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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