The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 58
But he took heart and tried to comfort his daughters, who looked frightened to death.
Who acts: King · What happens: take, try, comfort, frighten · To what, where: heart, daughters
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 (King), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 took | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 tried | cc |
| 6 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 comfort | mark |
| 8 | comfort | comfort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tried | xcomp |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 10 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 comfort | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 frightened | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 frightened | aux:pass |
| 14 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 daughters | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 death | case |
| 16 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 frightened | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | King | heart | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | ||||
| 2 | try | past | King not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | comfort not said to happen | to-infinitive | King not said here | King's daughters | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus daughter=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | frighten | past · passive | King's daughters | to death | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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