The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 122

So the people chose for king the man who had been kind to his mother when first she was cast on the island in the great chest.

Who acts: people, man · What happens: choose, be, cast · To what, where: mother, island

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, man), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 chose	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chose	nsubj
4	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 king	case
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chose	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kind	nsubj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 kind	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 kind	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 kind	cop
12	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chose	ccomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 mother	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mother	nmod:poss
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kind	obl
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 cast	advmod
17	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 cast	advmod
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 cast	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 cast	aux:pass
20	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 kind	advcl
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 island	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 island	det
23	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cast	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 chest	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 chest	det
26	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 chest	amod
27	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cast	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 chose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	choose	past	the people			for king	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for king=Beneficiary
2	is	past · perfect	the man			to king's mother; kind property	tree rules
3	cast	past · passive		mother	the island	in the great chest; first property	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme on island=Destination

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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