The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 14
All the King’s unsuccessful rivals had gone home in despair.
Who acts: King, unsuccessful rivals · What happens: be, go · To what, where: unsuccessful rivals, despair
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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, unsuccessful rivals), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 rivals | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 rivals | nsubj |
| 4 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 rivals | cop |
| 5 | unsuccessful | unsuccessful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rivals | amod |
| 6 | rivals | rival | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gone | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gone | aux |
| 8 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 gone | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 despair | case |
| 11 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gone | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the King | all unsuccessful rivals | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past · perfect | all unsuccessful rivals | despair | home property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in despair=Location |
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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