The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 258
The King of the Peacocks made ample amends to the King and Prince for the way in which they had been treated, and did everything in his power to show how sorry he was.
Who acts: King, Prince · What happens: make, treat, do, show, be · To what, where: ample amends, King, way, everything, power · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Prince), 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 | 6 made | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Peacocks | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Peacocks | det |
| 5 | Peacocks | peacock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 King | nmod |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ample | ample | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 amends | amod |
| 8 | amends | amend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 King | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 amends | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Prince | cc |
| 13 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 King | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 way | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 way | det |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 treated | obl |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 treated | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 treated | aux:pass |
| 22 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 way | acl:relcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 did | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 did | cc |
| 25 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | conj |
| 26 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 25 did | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 power | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 power | nmod:poss |
| 29 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 did | obl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 show | mark |
| 31 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 did | advcl |
| 32 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 sorry | advmod |
| 33 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 show | ccomp |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 sorry | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 sorry | cop |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the King of the Peacocks | ample amends | to the King and Prince; for the way | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent amend=Product for way=Asset | |||
| 2 | treat | past · perfect · passive | King | the way | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | do | past | the King of the Peacocks not said here | everything | Prince's power | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | show | to-infinitive | the King of the Peacocks not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | Prince | sorry property | 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 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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