The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 93
The king granted his request, and fitted him out in the finest fashion.
Who acts: king · What happens: grant, fit out, request · To what, where: request, king, finest fashion
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 granted | nsubj |
| 3 | granted | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 request | nmod:poss |
| 5 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 granted | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fitted | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fitted | cc |
| 8 | fitted | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 granted | parataxis |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fitted | obj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 fitted | compound:prt |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 fashion | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fashion | det |
| 13 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 fashion | amod |
| 14 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fitted | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 granted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | past | the king | king's request | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent request=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fit out | past | king | the finest fashion | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme in fashion=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | request | king | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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