The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 111
The next morning the king came very early to fetch the lion, as the old woman was already at the palace asking for it.
Who acts: king, old woman, palace · What happens: come, fetch, be, ask · To what, where: lion, palace
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, old woman, palace), 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 | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 early | advmod |
| 8 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 came | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 fetch | mark |
| 10 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 came | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lion | det |
| 12 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fetch | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 palace | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 palace | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 woman | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 woman | amod |
| 17 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 palace | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 palace | cop |
| 19 | already | already | ADV | _ | 22 palace | advmod |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 palace | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 palace | det |
| 22 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fetch | conj |
| 23 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 palace | acl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 asking | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the king | morning | early property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | fetch | to-infinitive | the king not said here | the lion | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the old woman | the palace | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | gerund | the palace not said here | for palace | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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.
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