The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 98

This unusual kind of rain, and the pleasantness of the whole place, would, no doubt, have attracted numbers of people to it, if the King of the Sheep had been of a more sociable disposition, but from all accounts it is evident that he was as grave as a judge.

Who acts: King, doubt · What happens: attract, be · To what, where: unusual kind, accounts

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, doubt), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 kind	det
2	unusual	unusual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kind	amod
3	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 attracted	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 rain	case
5	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kind	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pleasantness	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 pleasantness	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pleasantness	det
9	pleasantness	pleasantness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kind	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 place	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 place	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 place	amod
13	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pleasantness	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 kind	punct
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 attracted	aux
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 doubt	punct
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 doubt	det
18	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 attracted	nsubj:pass
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 doubt	punct
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 attracted	aux
21	attracted	attract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
22	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 attracted	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 people	case
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 numbers	nmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 people	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 disposition	punct
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	40 disposition	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 King	det
30	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 disposition	nsubj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 Sheep	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Sheep	det
33	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 King	nmod
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 disposition	aux
35	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 disposition	cop
36	of	of	ADP	_	40 disposition	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 disposition	det
38	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	39 sociable	advmod
39	sociable	sociable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 disposition	amod
40	disposition	disposition	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 attracted	parataxis
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 evident	punct
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	48 evident	cc
43	from	from	ADP	_	45 accounts	case
44	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 accounts	det
45	accounts	account	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 evident	obl
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 evident	nsubj
47	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 evident	cop
48	evident	evident	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 disposition	parataxis
49	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 grave	mark
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 grave	nsubj
51	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 grave	cop
52	as	as	ADV	_	53 grave	advmod
53	grave	grave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 evident	advcl
54	as	as	ADP	_	56 judge	case
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 judge	det
56	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 grave	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 attracted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	attract	would · perfect · passive		this unusual kind of rain the pleasantness of the whole place			tree rules
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	the King of the Sheep			of a sociable disposition	tree rules
3	is	present	doubt		all accounts	evident property	tree rules
4	is	past	king			as a judge; grave property	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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