The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 4
The King was sulky and savage, and never enjoyed himself at all.
Who acts: King · What happens: be, not enjoy · To what, where: himself, all
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), 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 | 4 sulky | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sulky | cop |
| 4 | sulky | sulky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 savage | cc |
| 6 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sulky | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 enjoyed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 enjoyed | cc |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 enjoyed | advmod |
| 10 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sulky | conj |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 enjoyed | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 all | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 enjoyed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sulky | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King | sulky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the King not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | not enjoy | past | the King not said here | himself = he | all | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus |
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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