The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 56
The King of the Sheep was so kind and amusing, and loved Miranda so dearly, that at last she began to love him too.
Who acts: King, that, Miranda · What happens: be, love, begin · To what, where: Miranda, King
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, that, Miranda), 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 | 8 kind | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Sheep | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Sheep | det |
| 5 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 King | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 kind | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 kind | advmod |
| 8 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 amusing | cc |
| 10 | amusing | amusing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 kind | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 loved | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 loved | cc |
| 13 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 kind | parataxis |
| 14 | Miranda | Miranda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 loved | obj |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 dearly | advmod |
| 16 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 13 loved | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 last | punct |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 last | nsubj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 last | case |
| 20 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 kind | conj |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 began | nsubj |
| 22 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 last | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 love | mark |
| 24 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 began | xcomp |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 love | obj |
| 26 | too | too | ADV | _ | 24 love | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King of the Sheep | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the King of the Sheep not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | love | past | Miranda | dearly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer miranda=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | be | that | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | begin | past | Miranda | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | love | to-infinitive | Miranda not said here | King | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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