The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 191
Three days passed before they heard any news, and then the King of the Peacocks came and berated them through a hole in the wall.
Who acts: soldiers, King · What happens: pass, hear, come, berate · To what, where: news, soldiers, hole
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldiers, 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 6 heard | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | advcl |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 news | det |
| 8 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 came | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 came | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Peacocks | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Peacocks | det |
| 16 | Peacocks | Peacock | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 King | nmod |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 berated | cc |
| 19 | berated | berate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 came | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 berated | obj |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 hole | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 hole | det |
| 23 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 berated | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 wall | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wall | det |
| 26 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hole | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | soldiers = soldier | any news | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the King of the Peacocks | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | berate | past | the King of the Peacocks not said here | soldiers = soldier | a hole in the wall | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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