The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 116
When the old king heard the news he welcomed him as a son, and made ready a feast, and all the court sat down.
Who acts: old king, king, court · What happens: hear, welcome, make, sit down · To what, where: news, brother, feast
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old king, king, court), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 king | amod |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 welcomed | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 news | det |
| 7 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 welcomed | nsubj |
| 9 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 welcomed | obj |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 son | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 son | det |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 welcomed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 made | cc |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 welcomed | parataxis |
| 17 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 made | xcomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 feast | det |
| 19 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sat | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sat | cc |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 court | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 court | det |
| 24 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sat | nsubj |
| 25 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 made | conj |
| 26 | down | down | ADP | _ | 25 sat | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 welcomed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the old king | the news | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | welcome | past | king | brother | as a son | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme as son=Attribute | |||
| 3 | make | past | a feast | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset feast=Product | ||||
| 4 | sit down | past | all court | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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