The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 59
‘And what shall be done to your brother?’ asked the king, who was glad to think that someone had acted in this matter worse than himself.
Who acts: king, someone · What happens: do, ask, be, think, act · To what, where: king, matter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, someone), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 done | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 done | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 done | obj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 done | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 done | aux:pass |
| 6 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 brother | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 done | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 done | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 done | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 glad | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 glad | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 glad | cop |
| 18 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 king | nmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 think | mark |
| 20 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 glad | advcl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 acted | mark |
| 22 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 24 acted | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 acted | aux |
| 24 | acted | act | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 think | ccomp |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 matter | case |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 matter | det |
| 27 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 acted | obl |
| 28 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 acted | xcomp |
| 29 | than | than | ADP | _ | 30 himself | case |
| 30 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 worse | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | shall · passive | to your brother | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the king | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | the king not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | act | past · perfect | someone | this matter | bad property | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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