The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 8
And the king suffered himself to be comforted.
Who acts: king · What happens: suffer, comfort · To what, where: king
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), 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 | _ | 4 suffered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 suffered | nsubj |
| 4 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 suffered | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 comforted | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 comforted | aux:pass |
| 8 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 suffered | advcl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 suffered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suffer | past | the king | king | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | comfort | to-infinitive · passive | the king not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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