The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 48
The next morning when the king looked from his window he saw this lovely creature hanging on the nail.
Who acts: king, lovely creature · What happens: look, see, hang · To what, where: lovely creature, nail
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, lovely creature), 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 | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 looked | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looked | nsubj |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 window | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 window | nmod:poss |
| 10 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looked | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 window | acl:relcl |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 creature | det |
| 14 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 creature | amod |
| 15 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obj |
| 16 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 creature | acl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 nail | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 nail | det |
| 19 | nail | nail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hanging | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the king | morning | from King's window | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from window=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | King | this lovely creature | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creature=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | hang | gerund | this lovely creature not said here | the nail | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on nail=Location |
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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