The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 73
Alas! it is not always kings and princes who are the happiest people in the world.
Who acts: village, princes · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: kings, happiest people, world
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 (village, princes), 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 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 7 kings | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Alas | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 kings | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 kings | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 kings | advmod |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 kings | advmod |
| 7 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 princes | cc |
| 9 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 kings | conj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 people | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 people | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 people | det |
| 13 | happiest | happy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 people | amod |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 princes | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 world | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 world | det |
| 17 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 people | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 kings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | village | kings and princes | always property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | princes | the happiest people | the world | tree rules |
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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