The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 59
The king, who was easily frightened, grew pale.
Who acts: king · What happens: frighten, grow · 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 frightened | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 frightened | aux:pass |
| 6 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 7 frightened | advmod |
| 7 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 king | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 king | punct |
| 9 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 grew | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past · passive | the king | easily property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | the king | pale property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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