The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 209
And they ruled as only kings rule who have suffered many things.
Who acts: heirs, kings · What happens: rule, suffer · To what, where: many things
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heirs, kings), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 ruled | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ruled | nsubj |
| 3 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 rule | advmod |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 kings | advmod |
| 6 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rule | nsubj |
| 7 | rule | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ruled | ccomp |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 suffered | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 suffered | aux |
| 10 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 rule | ccomp |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 things | amod |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 suffered | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ruled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | past | heirs = heir | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | rule | present | kings | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | suffer | present · perfect | many things | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
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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