The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 112
The King could not but be very sorry, for she was his mother; but he soon comforted himself with his beautiful wife and his pretty children.
Who acts: King, queen, Ogress · What happens: not be, be, comfort · To what, where: Ogress
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, queen, Ogress), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sorry | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 sorry | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 sorry | advmod |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 sorry | cc |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sorry | cop |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 sorry | advmod |
| 8 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mother | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 mother | case |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 mother | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 mother | cop |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sorry | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 comforted | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 comforted | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 comforted | nsubj |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 comforted | advmod |
| 19 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sorry | conj |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 comforted | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 wife | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 wife | nmod:poss |
| 23 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 wife | amod |
| 24 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 comforted | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 children | cc |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 children | nmod:poss |
| 27 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 children | amod |
| 28 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 wife | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | could | the King | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | queen | for Ogress's mother | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | comfort | past | Ogress | Ogress | with Ogress's beautiful wife and Ogress's pretty children; soon property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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