The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 84
On the third Thursday night the King once more insisted on keeping watch.
Who acts: King · What happens: insist, keep · To what, where: watch
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 night | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 night | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 night | amod |
| 4 | Thursday | Thursday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 night | compound |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 insisted | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 insisted | nsubj |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 more | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 insisted | advmod |
| 10 | insisted | insist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 12 keeping | mark |
| 12 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 insisted | advcl |
| 13 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 keeping | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 insisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | insist speech: other | participle | the King | night | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | keep | gerund | the King not said here | watch | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=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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