The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 204
As soon as the sun rose the King came, and when he perceived the gold he was astonished and delighted, but his heart only lusted more than ever after the precious metal.
Who acts: sun, King, heart · What happens: rise, come, perceive, be, lust · To what, where: gold, more
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 (sun, King, heart), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 rose | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 rose | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sun | det |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | nsubj |
| 6 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rose | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 perceived | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 perceived | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 perceived | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 perceived | nsubj |
| 14 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rose | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 gold | det |
| 16 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 perceived | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 astonished | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 astonished | cop |
| 19 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 perceived | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 delighted | cc |
| 21 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 astonished | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 lusted | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 lusted | cc |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 heart | nmod:poss |
| 25 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lusted | nsubj |
| 26 | only | only | ADV | _ | 27 lusted | advmod |
| 27 | lusted | lust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rose | conj |
| 28 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 lusted | obj |
| 29 | than | than | ADP | _ | 30 ever | case |
| 30 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 27 lusted | obl |
| 31 | after | after | ADP | _ | 34 metal | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 metal | det |
| 33 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 metal | amod |
| 34 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lusted | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the sun | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | perceive | past | King | the gold | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer gold=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | past | King | astonished property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | King not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | lust | past | King's heart | more | after the precious metal | 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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