The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 42
The King’s heart heaved so high at the joy which this news gave him that his turban dropped off his head.
Who acts: heart, news, turban · What happens: heave, give, drop off · To what, where: joy, King, head
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, news, turban), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heart | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 King | case |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heaved | nsubj |
| 5 | heaved | heave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 high | advmod |
| 7 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 heaved | xcomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 joy | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 joy | det |
| 10 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 high | obl |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 gave | obj |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 news | det |
| 13 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 joy | acl:relcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | iobj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 dropped | mark |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 turban | nmod:poss |
| 18 | turban | turban | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dropped | nsubj |
| 19 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gave | advcl |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 dropped | compound:prt |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 head | nmod:poss |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dropped | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heaved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heave | past | the King's heart | high property | vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | give | past | this news | the joy | King | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient which=Theme | |||
| 3 | drop off | past | King's turban | King's head | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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