The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 50
The King’s first act on reaching home was to thank Heaven for the victory he had gained over the enemies who had risen against him.
Who acts: first act, King, enemies · What happens: reach, be, gain, rise, act · To what, where: home, victory, enemies
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 (first act, King, enemies), 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 | 5 act | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 King | case |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 act | amod |
| 5 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thank | nsubj |
| 6 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 7 reaching | mark |
| 7 | reaching | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 act | acl |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reaching | obj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thank | cop |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 thank | mark |
| 11 | thank | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 thank | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 victory | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 victory | det |
| 15 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thank | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gained | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 gained | aux |
| 18 | gained | gain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 victory | acl:relcl |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 enemies | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 enemies | det |
| 21 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 gained | obl |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 risen | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 risen | aux |
| 24 | risen | rise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 enemies | acl:relcl |
| 25 | against | against | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 risen | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 thank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | gerund | the King's first act not said here | home | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent home=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the King's first act | for the victory; thank property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | gain | past · perfect | King | the victory not said here | the enemies | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victory=Theme | |||
| 4 | rise | past · perfect | the enemies | against King | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against he=Location | ||||
| 5 | act | the King | nom act «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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