The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 120
Now all the people rejoiced, because the wicked King should rule them no longer.
Who acts: people, wicked King · What happens: rejoice, rule · To what, where: peoples
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, wicked 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 rejoiced | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 people | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 people | det |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rejoiced | nsubj |
| 5 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rule | punct |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 rule | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 9 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 King | amod |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 rule | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 rule | aux |
| 12 | rule | rule | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 rejoiced | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 rule | obj |
| 14 | no | no | ADV | _ | 15 longer | advmod |
| 15 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 rule | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rejoiced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice | past | all people | now | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | rule | should | the wicked King | peoples = people | long property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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