The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 26
So the slave hastened to the king’s palace and gave his message, which troubled both the king and the queen greatly.
Who acts: slave, message · What happens: hasten, give, trouble · To what, where: palace, message, king
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 (slave, message), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 hastened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 slave | det |
| 3 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hastened | nsubj |
| 4 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 palace | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 palace | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 king | case |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hastened | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gave | cc |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hastened | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 message | nmod:poss |
| 13 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 troubled | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 troubled | nsubj |
| 16 | troubled | trouble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 message | acl:relcl |
| 17 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 19 king | cc:preconj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 troubled | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 queen | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 queen | det |
| 22 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 king | conj |
| 23 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 16 troubled | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | participle | the slave | the king's palace | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to palace=Destination | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the slave not said here | slave's message | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme | ||||
| 3 | trouble | past | slave's message | the king and the queen | greatly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer |
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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