The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 4
At least that is what the King of the Gold Mines thought, and he was never happy unless he was with her.
Who acts: that, King · What happens: be, think, not be · To what, where: least · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (that, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 least | case |
| 2 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 what | obl |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 what | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | cop |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Mines | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Mines | det |
| 10 | Gold | Gold | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Mines | compound |
| 11 | Mines | Mines | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 King | nmod |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 happy | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 happy | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 happy | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 happy | cop |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 happy | advmod |
| 18 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 19 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 23 her | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 her | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 her | cop |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 happy | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | least | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the King of the Gold Mines | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is | past | King | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | King | with Princess | 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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