The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 25
And when the king heard that the dragon was inside, he was so excited that he would not wait one moment, but broke the lock and lifted the lid just a little way to make sure he was really there.
Who acts: king, dragon · What happens: hear, be, not wait, break, lift, make · To what, where: lock, lid
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, dragon), 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 | _ | 25 broke | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 heard | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 broke | advcl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 inside | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dragon | det |
| 8 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 inside | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 inside | cop |
| 10 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 5 heard | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 excited | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 excited | cop |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 excited | advmod |
| 15 | excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 heard | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 wait | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wait | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 wait | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 wait | advmod |
| 20 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 excited | advcl |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 moment | nummod |
| 22 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wait | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 broke | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 broke | cc |
| 25 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 lock | det |
| 27 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 broke | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 lifted | cc |
| 29 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 broke | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 lid | det |
| 31 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lifted | obj |
| 32 | just | just | ADV | _ | 35 way | advmod |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 way | det |
| 34 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 way | amod |
| 35 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lifted | parataxis |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 make | mark |
| 37 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 way | acl |
| 38 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 make | xcomp |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 there | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 there | cop |
| 41 | really | really | ADV | _ | 42 there | advmod |
| 42 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 38 sure | ccomp |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the king | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the dragon | inside property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | dragon | excited property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not wait | would | dragon | moment | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | break | past | the lock | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lock=Patient | |||||
| 6 | lift | past | the lid | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme | |||||
| 7 | make | to-infinitive | sure property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 8 | is | past | dragon | there property | tree rules |
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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