The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 32
And the king listened to her, and seven years and seven months she looked for her bridegroom, and wept for him night and day.
Who acts: king, princess · What happens: listen, look, weep · To what, where: princess
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 (king, princess), 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 | _ | 4 listened | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 listened | nsubj |
| 4 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 listened | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 looked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 looked | cc |
| 9 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 years | nummod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 months | cc |
| 12 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 months | nummod |
| 13 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 years | conj |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 looked | nsubj |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 listened | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 bridegroom | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 bridegroom | nmod:poss |
| 18 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 looked | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wept | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wept | cc |
| 21 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 listened | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 wept | obl |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wept | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 day | cc |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 night | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | the king | princess | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | princess | year | for princess's bridegroom | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for bridegroom=Theme | |||
| 3 | weep | past | the king not said here | night | for king | vn breathe-40.1.2 «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/23/32/