The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 75
And so solemn he appeared, and so unshaken in his confidence, that the king’s wisdom was blinded, and he declared that he would do whatever the jogi advised, and believe whatever he said.
Who acts: king · What happens: appear, blind, declare, do, advise, believe · To what, where: wisdom, whatever, 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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 appeared | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 appeared | advmod |
| 3 | solemn | solemn | ADV | _ | 5 appeared | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 appeared | nsubj |
| 5 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 unshaken | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 unshaken | cc |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 unshaken | advmod |
| 9 | unshaken | unshaken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 appeared | xcomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 confidence | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 confidence | nmod:poss |
| 12 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 unshaken | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 blinded | punct |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 blinded | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wisdom | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 king | case |
| 18 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 blinded | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 blinded | aux:pass |
| 20 | blinded | blind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 unshaken | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 declared | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 declared | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 declared | nsubj |
| 24 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 appeared | conj |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 do | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 do | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 do | aux |
| 28 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 believe | advcl |
| 29 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 do | obj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 jogi | det |
| 31 | jogi | jogi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 whatever | nsubj |
| 32 | advised | advise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 jogi | acl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 believe | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 believe | cc |
| 35 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 declared | ccomp |
| 36 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 said | obj |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 said | nsubj |
| 38 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 believe | ccomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | king | solemn, unshaken property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | blind | past · passive | the king's wisdom | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | declare speech: other | past | king | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do | would | king | whatever | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | advise speech: other | participle | the jogi not said here | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | believe | infinitive | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | past | king | whatever | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent whatever=Topic | ||||
| 8 | confide | king | nom confidence «cognition transitive»: poss=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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