The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 15
Though the King was horribly afraid of the enchanter, he could not help laughing at this threat.
Who acts: King · What happens: be, not help, laugh · To what, where: threat
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 6 afraid | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 afraid | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 afraid | cop |
| 5 | horribly | horribly | ADV | _ | 6 afraid | advmod |
| 6 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 help | advcl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 enchanter | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 enchanter | det |
| 9 | enchanter | enchanter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 afraid | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 afraid | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 help | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 help | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 help | advmod |
| 14 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 help | xcomp |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 threat | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 threat | det |
| 18 | threat | threat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 laughing | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King | of the enchanter; afraid, horribly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not help | could | king | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | laugh not said to happen | gerund | king not said here | this threat | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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