The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 17
Now one evening the king of that country was hunting near the charcoal-burner’s hut.
Who acts: king · What happens: hunt · To what, where: hut
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 hunting | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 evening | nummod |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hunting | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hunting | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 country | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 country | det |
| 8 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 king | nmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hunting | aux |
| 10 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | near | near | ADP | _ | 17 hut | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 burner | det |
| 13 | charcoal | charcoal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 burner | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 charcoal | punct |
| 15 | burner | burner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hut | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 burner | case |
| 17 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hunting | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 hunting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | past · progressive | the king of that country | the charcoal burner's hut | now; evening | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent near hut=Location |
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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