The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 8
The King was very unwilling to permit it, but at last the lad got leave.
Who acts: King, last · What happens: be, permit, get, leave · To what, where: leave
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: who acts (King, last), 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 | 5 unwilling | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 unwilling | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 unwilling | advmod |
| 5 | unwilling | unwilling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 permit | mark |
| 7 | permit | permit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 unwilling | xcomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 permit | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 got | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 got | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 last | case |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 got | nsubj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lad | det |
| 14 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 last | nsubj |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 unwilling | conj |
| 16 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 got | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 unwilling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King | unwilling property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | permit | to-infinitive | the King not said here | leave | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get | past | last | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | leave | infinitive | last not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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