The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 4
The king agreed, and a pair of scales were brought; and a handful of gold was placed in one scale and the silken ball in the other.
Who acts: king · What happens: agree, bring, place · To what, where: pair, handful, one scale
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. 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 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brought | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 brought | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pair | det |
| 7 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 scales | case |
| 9 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pair | nmod |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 brought | aux:pass |
| 11 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 agreed | parataxis |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 placed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 placed | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 handful | det |
| 15 | handful | handful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 gold | case |
| 17 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 handful | nmod |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 placed | aux:pass |
| 19 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 agreed | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 scale | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 scale | nummod |
| 22 | scale | scale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 placed | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 ball | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ball | det |
| 25 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 ball | amod |
| 26 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 scale | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 other | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 other | det |
| 29 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 placed | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the king | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bring | past · passive | a pair of scales | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | place | past · passive | a handful of gold | one scale and the silken ball | in the other | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in scale=Destination |
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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