The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 104
When the young king of Easaidh Ruadh came into his kingdom, the first thing he thought of was how he could amuse himself best.
Who acts: young king, King, first thing · What happens: come, think, be · To what, where: kingdom, first thing
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young king, King, first thing), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 king | amod |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Easaidh | case |
| 6 | Easaidh | Easaidh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 king | nmod |
| 7 | Ruadh | Ruadh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Easaidh | flat |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 kingdom | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 11 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thing | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 thing | det |
| 14 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 thing | amod |
| 15 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 amuse | nsubj:outer |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 thought | nsubj |
| 17 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 thing | acl:relcl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 thought | obl |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 amuse | cop |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 amuse | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 amuse | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 amuse | aux |
| 23 | amuse | amuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 came | conj |
| 24 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 amuse | obj |
| 25 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 23 amuse | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the young king of Easaidh | King's kingdom | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into kingdom=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | King | the first thing not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | could · past | the first thing | amuse, well property | tree rules |
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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