The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 235
When the King of the Peacocks wanted his dinner there was nothing in the pot and nothing in the pantry.
Who acts: King, nothing · What happens: want, be · To what, where: dinner
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 (King, nothing), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 wanted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Peacocks | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Peacocks | det |
| 6 | Peacocks | Peacock | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 King | nmod |
| 7 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wanted | obj |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wanted | conj |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 was | nsubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 pot | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pot | det |
| 15 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nothing | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 nothing | cc |
| 17 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 pot | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 pantry | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 pantry | det |
| 20 | pantry | pantry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 nothing | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | the King of the Peacocks | Frisk's dinner | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dinner=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «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 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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