The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 106
They were the last of all, so the King inquired of them if there was no one else in the kingdom left to come.
Who acts: apples, King, one · What happens: be, inquire, leave, come
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (apples, King, one), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 last | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 last | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 last | det |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 last | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 inquired | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 inquired | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 inquired | nsubj |
| 11 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 last | parataxis |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 inquired | obl |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 was | mark |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 was | expl |
| 16 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 left | advcl |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 left | nsubj |
| 19 | else | else | ADV | _ | 18 one | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 kingdom | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 kingdom | det |
| 22 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 one | nmod |
| 23 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 inquired | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 come | mark |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 left | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 last | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | apples = apple | of all; last property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | the King | of apples = apple | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of they=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | be a condition, not said to happen | past | no one in the kingdom not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | leave | past | no one in the kingdom | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | come | to-infinitive | no one in the kingdom not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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