The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 4
Then the king told her everything that had befallen him, and she stroked his hair the while.
Who acts: king, sorrow · What happens: tell, befall, stroke · To what, where: everything, sorrow, king, hair · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, sorrow), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 told | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | iobj |
| 6 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 told | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 befallen | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 befallen | aux |
| 9 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 everything | acl:relcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 befallen | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stroked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stroked | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stroked | nsubj |
| 14 | stroked | stroke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hair | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stroked | obj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 while | det |
| 18 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stroked | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the king | everything | sorrow | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient everything=Topic | ||
| 2 | befall | past · perfect | king | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stroke | past | sorrow | king's hair | while | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Experiencer |
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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