The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 117
Then the King was astonished, but very glad, and asked how it had fared with him.
Who acts: King · What happens: be, ask, fare · To what, where: ghost · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 astonished | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 astonished | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 astonished | cop |
| 5 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 glad | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 glad | cc |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 glad | advmod |
| 9 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 astonished | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asked | cc |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 glad | conj |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 fared | advmod |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fared | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fared | aux |
| 16 | fared | fare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fared | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King | then | astonished property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | the King not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the King not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | fare | past · perfect · passive | ghost | with King | 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 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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