The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 14
And when they were brought before the King, he thought the maid looked like a Queen, and the Queen like a maid.
Who acts: King, maid · What happens: bring, think, look · To what, where: clothes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Sigurd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, maid), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 brought | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 brought | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | aux:pass |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 King | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 maid | det |
| 13 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looked | nsubj |
| 14 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 Queen | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 Queen | det |
| 17 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 looked | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Queen | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Queen | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Queen | det |
| 21 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 maid | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 maid | det |
| 24 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Queen | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | clothes | before the King | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before king=Destination | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | King | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look | past | the maid | like a Queen | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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