The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 102
Well, he had fallen very ill when he was on the furthest border of the kingdom, and he was nursed by some kind people who did not know who he was, so that the king and queen heard nothing about him.
Who acts: prince, kind people, king · What happens: fall, be, nurse, not know, hear · To what, where: furthest border, prince, kind people, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, kind people, king), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 fallen | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fallen | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fallen | aux |
| 5 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 ill | advmod |
| 7 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fallen | xcomp |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 border | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 border | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 border | cop |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 border | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 border | det |
| 13 | furthest | furth | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 border | amod |
| 14 | border | border | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fallen | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 kingdom | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 kingdom | det |
| 17 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 border | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 nursed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 nursed | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 nursed | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 nursed | aux:pass |
| 22 | nursed | nurse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 fallen | conj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 people | case |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 people | det |
| 25 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 people | amod |
| 26 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 nursed | obl |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 know | nsubj |
| 28 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 know | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 know | advmod |
| 30 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 people | acl:relcl |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 30 know | ccomp |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 who | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 who | cop |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 heard | punct |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 41 heard | advmod |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 heard | mark |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 king | det |
| 38 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 heard | nsubj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 queen | cc |
| 40 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 king | conj |
| 41 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fallen | conj |
| 42 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 41 heard | obj |
| 43 | about | about | ADP | _ | 44 him | case |
| 44 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 nothing | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fallen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past · perfect | prince | ill property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | prince | the furthest border | of the kingdom | tree rules | |||
| 3 | nurse | past · passive | some kind people | prince | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | not know | past · do-support | some kind people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | prince | some kind people | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | hear | past | the king and queen | nothing | about prince | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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