The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 29
Now the King loved money more than anything else in the world, so he cried joyfully:
Who acts: King, St. · What happens: love, cry · To what, where: money
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, St.), 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 loved | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 loved | nsubj |
| 4 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 loved | obj |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 loved | advmod |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 anything | case |
| 8 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 more | obl |
| 9 | else | else | ADV | _ | 8 anything | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 anything | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cried | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 cried | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 cried | nsubj |
| 16 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 loved | parataxis |
| 17 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 16 cried | advmod |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | the King | money | now | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | St. | joyfully 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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