The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 7
At this instant the King of the Sheep came back to her, and was so distracted to find her in tears that he could have torn his wool.
Who acts: King · What happens: come back, distract, find, tear · To what, where: Princess, instant, tears, wool
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), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 instant | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 instant | det |
| 3 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Sheep | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Sheep | det |
| 8 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 King | nmod |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 distracted | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 distracted | cc |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 distracted | aux:pass |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 distracted | advmod |
| 17 | distracted | distract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 came | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 find | mark |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 distracted | xcomp |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 find | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 tears | case |
| 22 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 find | obl |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 torn | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 torn | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 torn | aux |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 torn | aux |
| 27 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 tears | acl:relcl |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 wool | nmod:poss |
| 29 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 torn | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | the King of the Sheep | Princess | this instant | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | distract | past · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | Princess | tears | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 4 | tear | could · perfect | King | King's wool | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location wool=Theme |
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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