The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 3
Now the King had a deer park in which were quantities of wild animals of different kinds.
Who acts: King · What happens: have, be · To what, where: deer park, quantities
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 had | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 park | det |
| 6 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 park | compound |
| 7 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 11 quantities | det |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 quantities | cop |
| 11 | quantities | quantity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 park | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 animals | case |
| 13 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 animals | amod |
| 14 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 quantities | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 kinds | case |
| 16 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 kinds | amod |
| 17 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 animals | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the King | a deer park | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent park=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | past | which quantities | of wild animals of different kinds | 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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