The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 55
At last he became so ill his life was despaired of, and in great alarm the King caused all the wizards of his country to be summoned.
Who acts: man, King · What happens: become, despair, cause, summon · To what, where: last, life, wizards, great alarm
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 became | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 became | nsubj |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 ill | advmod |
| 6 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 became | xcomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 life | nmod:poss |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 despaired | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 despaired | aux:pass |
| 10 | despaired | despair | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 became | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 despaired | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 caused | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 caused | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 alarm | case |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 alarm | amod |
| 16 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 caused | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 caused | nsubj |
| 19 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 became | conj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 wizards | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wizards | det |
| 22 | wizards | wizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 caused | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 country | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 country | nmod:poss |
| 25 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wizards | nmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 summoned | mark |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 summoned | aux:pass |
| 28 | summoned | summon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 caused | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | man | last | ill property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | despair | past · passive | man's life | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cause | past | the King | all wizards of man's country | great alarm | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition wizard=Patient | |||
| 4 | summon | to-infinitive · passive | the King not said here | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP» |
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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