The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 18
But then he was a king’s son and not a sailor, which made all the difference.
Who acts: sun, sailor · What happens: be, make · To what, where: son, difference
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, sailor), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 son | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 son | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 son | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 son | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 king | case |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sailor | cc |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 sailor | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sailor | det |
| 12 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 son | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 made | nsubj |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sailor | acl:relcl |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 difference | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 difference | det |
| 18 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | sun | a king's son and a sailor | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | past | a sailor | all difference | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset difference=Product |
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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