The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 56
But still the jogi sat with his face turned away, and the more the king pressed him the more silent and mysterious he became.
Who acts: jogi, face, king · What happens: sit, turn away, press, become · To what, where: king
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jogi, face, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 sat | cc |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 jogi | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 jogi | det |
| 4 | jogi | jogi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 9 turned | mark |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 face | nmod:poss |
| 8 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turned | nsubj |
| 9 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sat | advcl |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 turned | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pressed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pressed | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 more | det |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 pressed | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 more | nsubj |
| 17 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sat | parataxis |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 pressed | obj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 silent | det |
| 20 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 silent | advmod |
| 21 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 pressed | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 mysterious | cc |
| 23 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 silent | conj |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 became | nsubj |
| 25 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 pressed | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the jogi | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | turn away | past | king's face | away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | press | past | king | the silent obl | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result | ||||
| 4 | become | past | king | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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