The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 50
The King is dining, and will not be disturbed.’
Who acts: King · What happens: dine, not disturb
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. 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 dining | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dining | aux |
| 4 | dining | dine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 disturbed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 disturbed | cc |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 disturbed | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 disturbed | advmod |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 disturbed | aux:pass |
| 10 | disturbed | disturb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 dining | advcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 disturbed | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 disturbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dine | present · progressive | the King | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not disturb | future · passive | the King not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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