The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 29
But the King would not listen to her, and sent her away with the ambassadors.
Who acts: King · What happens: not listen, send away · To what, where: sire
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 listen | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 listen | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 listen | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 listen | advmod |
| 6 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 listen | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sent | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sent | cc |
| 11 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 listen | parataxis |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sent | obj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 sent | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 ambassadors | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ambassadors | det |
| 16 | ambassadors | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sent | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not listen | would | the King | sire | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send away | past | sire | with the ambassadors; away property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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