The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 43
The king had listened attentively to the story, and when it was ended he said:
Who acts: king, story · What happens: listen, be, say · 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 (king, story), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 listened | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 listened | aux |
| 4 | listened | listen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | attentively | attentively | ADV | _ | 4 listened | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 story | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 listened | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ended | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ended | cc |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 ended | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ended | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 ended | cop |
| 14 | ended | ended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 listened | conj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 ended | acl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past · perfect | the king | to the story; attentively property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to story=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | story | ended property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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