The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 118
At these words the king, who had been feeling rather uncomfortable, took heart again, for had he not prepared two beautiful tombs for his son to see, so that he might never, never guess what had been done to his wife?
Who acts: king · What happens: feel, take, have, see, not guess, do · To what, where: heart, words, king · 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 (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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 took | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 words | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 feeling | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 feeling | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 feeling | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 feeling | aux |
| 10 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 king | conj |
| 11 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 12 uncomfortable | advmod |
| 12 | uncomfortable | uncomfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 feeling | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 words | punct |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 took | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 had | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 had | case |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | conj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 had | obj |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 prepared | advmod |
| 22 | prepared | prepared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 tombs | amod |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 tombs | nummod |
| 24 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 tombs | amod |
| 25 | tombs | tomb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 had | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 son | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 son | nmod:poss |
| 28 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tombs | nmod |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 see | mark |
| 30 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 son | acl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 guess | punct |
| 32 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 35 might | mark |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 so | fixed |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 might | nsubj |
| 35 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 guess | aux |
| 36 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 39 guess | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 never | punct |
| 38 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 39 guess | advmod |
| 39 | guess | guess | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 had | parataxis |
| 40 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 43 done | obj |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 done | aux |
| 42 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 43 done | aux:pass |
| 43 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 guess | ccomp |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 wife | case |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 wife | nmod:poss |
| 46 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 done | obl |
| 47 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past · perfect · progressive | the king | uncomfortable property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | take | past | heart | this words | again | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent heart=Theme at word=Asset | |||
| 3 | have | past | king | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | not guess | might | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | do | past · perfect · passive | to king's wife | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality |
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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