The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 4
The king was seated on his throne when the youth appeared before him and spread out the covering with a deep bow.
Who acts: youth · What happens: seat, appear, spread out · To what, where: king, throne, covering
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 (youth), 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 | 4 seated | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seated | aux:pass |
| 4 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 throne | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 throne | nmod:poss |
| 7 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seated | obl |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 appeared | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 youth | det |
| 10 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 appeared | nsubj |
| 11 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seated | advcl |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 appeared | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 spread | cc |
| 15 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 appeared | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 spread | compound:prt |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 covering | det |
| 18 | covering | covering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spread | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 bow | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 bow | det |
| 21 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 bow | amod |
| 22 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spread | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past · passive | the king | king's throne | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value | ||||
| 2 | appear | past | the youth | before king | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location | ||||
| 3 | spread out | past | the youth not said here | the covering | with a deep bow | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent covering=Destination with bow=Theme |
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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