The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 34
But the King got very cross when he saw them whispering together, and cried harshly:
Who acts: King, battle · What happens: get, see, whisper, cry · To what, where: King
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, battle), 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 | _ | 4 got | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 cross | advmod |
| 6 | cross | cross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 saw | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | advcl |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | obj |
| 11 | whispering | whisper | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 saw | xcomp |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 whispering | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cried | cc |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 16 | harshly | harshly | ADV | _ | 15 cried | advmod |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the King | cross property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | see | past | battle | King | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | whisper speech: assert | gerund | King not said here | together property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | the King not said here | harshly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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