The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 23
The King was very angry indeed when he heard this dream, and frowned horribly; indeed, he made such an ugly face that everyone knew how angry he was, and he got up and went off to bed in a great hurry; but he could not forget his daughter’s dream.
Who acts: King, everyone, daughter · What happens: be, hear, frown, make, know, get up · To what, where: dream, ugly face, great hurry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, everyone, daughter), 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 | 5 angry | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 angry | advmod |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 5 angry | advmod |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 heard | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | parataxis |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 dream | det |
| 11 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 frowned | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 frowned | cc |
| 14 | frowned | frown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 heard | conj |
| 15 | horribly | horribly | ADV | _ | 14 frowned | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 made | punct |
| 17 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 20 made | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 made | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 made | nsubj |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | parataxis |
| 21 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 face | det:predet |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 face | det |
| 23 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 face | amod |
| 24 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 made | obj |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 knew | obj |
| 26 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 27 knew | nsubj |
| 27 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 face | acl:relcl |
| 28 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 angry | advmod |
| 29 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 knew | ccomp |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 angry | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 angry | cop |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 got | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 got | cc |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 got | nsubj |
| 35 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 made | parataxis |
| 36 | up | up | ADP | _ | 35 got | compound:prt |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 went | cc |
| 38 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 got | conj |
| 39 | off | off | ADP | _ | 38 went | compound:prt |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 bed | case |
| 41 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 went | obl |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 hurry | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 hurry | det |
| 44 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 hurry | amod |
| 45 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 went | obl |
| 46 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 51 forget | punct |
| 47 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 51 forget | cc |
| 48 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 forget | nsubj |
| 49 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 forget | aux |
| 50 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 51 forget | advmod |
| 51 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 made | conj |
| 52 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 53 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 dream | nmod:poss |
| 54 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 53 daughter | case |
| 55 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 forget | obj |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King | angry, indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | king | this dream | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer dream=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | frown | participle | king not said here | horribly property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | make | past | king | such ugly face | indeed property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Product | |||
| 5 | know | past | everyone | such ugly face | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | is | past | king | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | get up | past | king | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | go off | past | king not said here | a great hurry | to bed | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in hurry=Location | |||
| 9 | not forget | could | king | king's daughter's dream | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | dream | king's daughter | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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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