The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 7
Now when this wicked King heard of the happiness of the Jolly King, he was so jealous that he collected a great army and set out to fight him, and the news of his approach was soon brought to the King and Queen.
Who acts: wicked King, head · What happens: hear, be, collect, set out, fight, bring · To what, where: great army, head, news, 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 (wicked King, head), 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 | 6 heard | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 heard | advmod |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 King | nsubj |
| 4 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 King | amod |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 happiness | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 happiness | det |
| 9 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 King | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 12 | Jolly | Jolly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 King | compound |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 happiness | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 jealous | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 jealous | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 jealous | cop |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 jealous | advmod |
| 18 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 heard | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 collected | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 collected | nsubj |
| 21 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 jealous | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 army | det |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 army | amod |
| 24 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 collected | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 set | cc |
| 26 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 collected | conj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 set | compound:prt |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 fight | mark |
| 29 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 set | xcomp |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 fight | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 brought | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 brought | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 news | det |
| 34 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 approach | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 approach | nmod:poss |
| 37 | approach | approach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 news | nmod |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 brought | aux:pass |
| 39 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 40 brought | advmod |
| 40 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 heard | conj |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 King | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 King | det |
| 43 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 brought | obl |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 Queen | cc |
| 45 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 King | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | wicked King | now | of the happiness of the Jolly King | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of happiness=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | past | head | jealous property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | collect | past | head | a great army | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Theme | ||||
| 4 | set out | infinitive | head not said here | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | fight | to-infinitive | head not said here | head | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | bring | past · passive | the news of head's approach | the King and Queen | soon property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to king=Destination | |||
| 7 | approach | head | nom approach «act intransitive»: poss=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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