The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 24
The good King was quite satisfied with this promise; and very soon afterward he died.
Who acts: good King, king · What happens: be, die
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good King, 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 | 3 King | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 King | amod |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 satisfied | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 satisfied | cop |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 satisfied | advmod |
| 6 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 promise | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 promise | det |
| 9 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 satisfied | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 died | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 died | cc |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 soon | advmod |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 died | advmod |
| 14 | afterward | afterward | SCONJ | _ | 16 died | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 died | nsubj |
| 16 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 satisfied | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 satisfied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the good King | with this promise; satisfied property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | die | past | king | soon property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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