The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 121
‘That is just what I want,’ said the king, and they played; and sometimes it seemed as if one would win, and sometimes the other, but in the end it was the king who was the winner.
Who acts: That, I, sports, it, one, end · What happens: be, want, say, play, seem, win · To what, where: king, end, winner · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (That, I, sports, it), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 what | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 what | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | cop |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 what | advmod |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 said | nsubj:outer |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 want | nsubj |
| 7 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 want | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 what | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 played | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 played | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 played | nsubj |
| 16 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 seemed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 seemed | cc |
| 19 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 seemed | advmod |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 seemed | nsubj |
| 21 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | parataxis |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 win | mark |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 win | mark |
| 24 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 win | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 win | aux |
| 26 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 seemed | xcomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 other | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 other | cc |
| 29 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 31 other | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 other | det |
| 31 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 seemed | parataxis |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 king | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 king | cc |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 end | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 end | det |
| 36 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 king | obl |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 king | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 king | cop |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 king | det |
| 40 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 other | appos |
| 41 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 winner | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 winner | cop |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 winner | det |
| 44 | winner | winner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 king | acl:relcl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | want | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic | |||||
| 4 | play | past | sports = sport | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | seem | past | it | sometimes property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | win a condition, not said to happen | would | one | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is a | past | end | the king | in the end | tree rules | |||
| 8 | is a | past | the king | the winner | 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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