The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 68
The King, who was quite deceived by her altered appearance, replied:
Who acts: altered appearance · What happens: deceive, reply · To what, where: King
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 (altered appearance), 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 | 7 deceived | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 deceived | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 deceived | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 deceived | aux:pass |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 deceived | advmod |
| 7 | deceived | deceive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 appearance | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 10 | altered | altered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 appearance | amod |
| 11 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 deceived | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 deceived | conj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 deceived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deceive | past · passive | misfortune's altered appearance | the King | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | participle | misfortune's altered appearance not said here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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