The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 3, sentence 5
The King recognized her at once--indeed, he had already thought several times how much like his poor little Miranda she was.
Who acts: King · What happens: recognize, think, be · To what, where: feast · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 3. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 recognized | nsubj |
| 3 | recognized | recognize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 recognized | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 once | case |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 recognized | advmod |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 indeed | punct |
| 8 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 6 once | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 thought | aux |
| 12 | already | already | ADV | _ | 13 thought | advmod |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 recognized | conj |
| 14 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 times | amod |
| 15 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 much | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 much | advmod |
| 17 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 Miranda | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 Miranda | nmod:poss |
| 20 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Miranda | amod |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Miranda | amod |
| 22 | Miranda | Miranda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 much | nmod |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 was | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 much | cop |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 recognized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognize | past | the King | feast | once property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past · perfect | King | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | time | like King's poor little Miranda; much 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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