The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 1
Not knowing what to do, the chamberlain hurried back with his tale to the king, who immediately sent for the Wise Man, and then for his daughter.
Who acts: chamberlain, king · What happens: not know, do, hurry back, send, tell · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chamberlain, 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 knowing | advmod |
| 2 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 hurried | advcl |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 do | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 knowing | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hurried | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chamberlain | det |
| 8 | chamberlain | chamberlain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hurried | nsubj |
| 9 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 hurried | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 tale | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 tale | nmod:poss |
| 13 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hurried | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 king | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tale | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sent | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 sent | nsubj |
| 19 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 20 sent | advmod |
| 20 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 king | acl:relcl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 Man | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Man | det |
| 23 | Wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Man | amod |
| 24 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sent | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 daughter | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 daughter | cc |
| 27 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 daughter | advmod |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 daughter | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 30 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hurried | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | gerund | the chamberlain not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | the chamberlain not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | hurry back | past | the chamberlain | with chamberlain's tale to the king | vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with tale=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | send | participle | the king | for the Wise Man; immediately property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | tell | chamberlain | to the king | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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