The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 53
In spite of this, however, it was not long before the King noticed that his third daughter was getting very thin and sad-looking.
Who acts: best, King, third daughter · What happens: not be, notice, get, look, spite · To what, where: spite, this · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (best, King, third daughter), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 spite | case |
| 2 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 noticed | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 this | case |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 spite | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 spite | punct |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 11 long | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 however | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 long | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 long | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 long | advmod |
| 11 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 noticed | advmod |
| 12 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 15 noticed | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 noticed | nsubj |
| 15 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 getting | mark |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 18 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 daughter | amod |
| 19 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 getting | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 getting | aux |
| 21 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 noticed | ccomp |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 thin | advmod |
| 23 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 getting | xcomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 looking | cc |
| 25 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 looking | amod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 sad | punct |
| 27 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 getting | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | best = good | however, long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | notice | past | the King | spite of this | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | get | past · progressive | King's third daughter | thin property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | look | gerund | King's third daughter not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | spite | this | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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