The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 81
The King suspected no evil, and didn’t come again till next morning.
Who acts: King · What happens: suspect, not come · To what, where: evil
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 suspected | nsubj |
| 3 | suspected | suspect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 evil | det |
| 5 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suspected | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 come | cc |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | aux |
| 9 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 come | advmod |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 suspected | conj |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 come | advmod |
| 12 | till | till | ADP | _ | 14 morning | case |
| 13 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 morning | amod |
| 14 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 suspected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suspect | past | the King | no evil | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent evil=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | not come | past · do-support | the King not said here | again; morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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