The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 71
The king, greatly agitated, went off to tell the jogi, and to assure him that there must be some mistake.
Who acts: king, mistake · What happens: agitate, go off, tell, assure, be · To what, where: king, jogi · Speech: someone speaks here
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, mistake), 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 | 7 went | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 agitated | punct |
| 4 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 5 agitated | advmod |
| 5 | agitated | agitate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 king | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 king | punct |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 went | compound:prt |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 tell | mark |
| 10 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 went | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 jogi | det |
| 12 | jogi | jogi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tell | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 assure | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 assure | cc |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 assure | mark |
| 16 | assure | assure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 tell | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 assure | obj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 be | mark |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 be | expl |
| 20 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 be | aux |
| 21 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 assure | conj |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 mistake | det |
| 23 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 be | nsubj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agitate | participle | the king not said here | greatly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | go off | past | the king | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | the king not said here | the jogi | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent jogi=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | assure | to-infinitive | the king not said here | king | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | be | must | some mistake | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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