The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 48
And now the young King was deeply afflicted, and day out and day in went about thinking of naught else but how to get back again to his Queen.
What happens: afflict, go, think, get back · To what, where: young King, Queen
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 afflicted | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 afflicted | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 King | amod |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 afflicted | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 afflicted | aux:pass |
| 7 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 8 afflicted | advmod |
| 8 | afflicted | afflict | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 out | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 out | cc |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 out | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 afflicted | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 day | cc |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 out | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 went | case |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 afflicted | advcl |
| 17 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 18 thinking | mark |
| 18 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 went | advcl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 naught | case |
| 20 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 18 thinking | obl |
| 21 | else | else | ADV | _ | 20 naught | advmod |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 get | cc |
| 23 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 get | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 get | mark |
| 25 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 thinking | conj |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 get | advmod |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 get | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 Queen | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 Queen | nmod:poss |
| 30 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 get | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 afflicted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | afflict | past · passive | the young King | now | deeply, out property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | go | past | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | of naught | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | get back | to-infinitive | King's Queen | again | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to queen=Result |
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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