The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 62
Meanwhile the King and the Prince were considering how they should find the King of the Peacocks, if there was such a person in the world.
Who acts: King, considering · What happens: consider, find, be · To what, where: King, person, world
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, considering), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 3 King | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 considering | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Prince | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Prince | det |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 King | conj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 considering | aux |
| 8 | considering | consider | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 person | csubj |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 find | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 find | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 find | aux |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 considering | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 find | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Peacocks | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Peacocks | det |
| 17 | Peacocks | Peacock | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 King | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 was | punct |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 was | mark |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 was | expl |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 person | cop |
| 22 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 person | det:predet |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 person | det |
| 24 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 world | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 world | det |
| 27 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 person | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 person | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | past · progressive | the King and the Prince | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | should | King | the King of the Peacocks | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | considering | such person | the world | 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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