The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 6
Then the king took some larger scales, and heaped up all his treasures on one side, but the silk on the other outweighed them all.
Who acts: king, silk · What happens: take, heap up, outweigh, treasure · To what, where: larger scales, treasures, one side, scales
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, silk), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 scales | det |
| 6 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 scales | amod |
| 7 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 heaped | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 heaped | cc |
| 10 | heaped | heap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 took | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 heaped | compound:prt |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 treasures | det:predet |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 treasures | nmod:poss |
| 14 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 heaped | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 side | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 side | nummod |
| 17 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 treasures | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 outweighed | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 outweighed | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 silk | det |
| 21 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 outweighed | nsubj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 other | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 other | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 silk | nmod |
| 25 | outweighed | outweigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 outweighed | obj |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 outweighed | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the king | some larger scales | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scale=Theme | |||
| 2 | heap up | participle | the king not said here | king's treasures | one side | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme on side=Destination | |||
| 3 | outweigh | past | the silk on the other | scales = scale | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | treasure | king | one side | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent on=place |
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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