The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 48
The string was easy to untie, and the king’s son soon unfastened the bundle.
Who acts: string · What happens: be, untie, unfasten · To what, where: son
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (string), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 string | det |
| 2 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 easy | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 easy | cop |
| 4 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 untie | mark |
| 6 | untie | untie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 easy | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 unfastened | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 unfastened | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 king | case |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 unfastened | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 unfastened | advmod |
| 14 | unfastened | unfasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 easy | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bundle | det |
| 16 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 unfastened | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the string | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | untie | to-infinitive | the string not said here | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | unfasten | participle · passive | the king's son | soon 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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