The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 79
The King was grieved at the thought of losing all his faithful servants for the sake of one man, and he wished heartily that he had never set eyes on him, or that he could get rid of him.
Who acts: thought, King · What happens: grieve, lose, wish, not set, get · To what, where: King, thought, faithful servants
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought, 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 | 4 grieved | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grieved | aux:pass |
| 4 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 thought | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 thought | det |
| 7 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grieved | obl |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 losing | mark |
| 9 | losing | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 thought | acl |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 servants | det:predet |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 servants | nmod:poss |
| 12 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 servants | amod |
| 13 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 losing | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 sake | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sake | det |
| 16 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 losing | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 man | case |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 man | nummod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sake | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 wished | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 wished | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 wished | nsubj |
| 23 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grieved | conj |
| 24 | heartily | heartily | ADV | _ | 23 wished | advmod |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 set | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 set | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 set | aux |
| 28 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 29 set | advmod |
| 29 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 wished | advcl |
| 30 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 set | obj |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 him | case |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 set | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 get | punct |
| 34 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 get | cc |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 get | mark |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 get | nsubj |
| 37 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 get | aux |
| 38 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 wished | advcl |
| 39 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 get | xcomp |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 him | case |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 rid | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grieved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grieve | past · passive | the King | the thought | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | lose | gerund | the thought not said here | King's faithful servants | for the sake of one man | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | wish | past | King | heartily property | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | not set | past · perfect · passive | King | on man | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme eye=Destination | ||||
| 5 | get | could | King | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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