The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 2
This King Grumpy, as he was called, had one son, who was as different from his father as he could possibly be.
Who acts: Grumpy, one son · What happens: call, have, be · To what, where: Grumpy, one son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (Grumpy, one son), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Grumpy | nsubj |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Grumpy | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Grumpy | Grumpy | PROPN | _ | 10 had | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 called | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 called | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 called | aux:pass |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Grumpy | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Grumpy | punct |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 son | nummod |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 different | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 different | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 different | cop |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 different | case |
| 17 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 son | parataxis |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 father | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 father | nmod:poss |
| 20 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 different | obl |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 be | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 be | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 be | aux |
| 24 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 25 be | advmod |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 different | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | Grumpy | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | have | past | Grumpy King | one son | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | one son | from King's father; different property | tree rules |
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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