The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 53
‘Well,’ thought the youth as he read this proclamation, ‘that ought not to be a very difficult matter;’ and he asked an audience of the king, and told him that he wished to seek for the princess.
Who acts: youth, that · What happens: think, read, not be, ask, tell, wish · To what, where: youth, proclamation, difficult matter, audience · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (youth, that), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 thought | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 youth | det |
| 7 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | obj |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 read | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 read | nsubj |
| 10 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | advcl |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 proclamation | det |
| 12 | proclamation | proclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 read | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 matter | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 matter | punct |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 matter | nsubj |
| 16 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 matter | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 matter | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 matter | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 matter | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 matter | det |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 difficult | advmod |
| 22 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 matter | amod |
| 23 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 proclamation | appos |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 asked | cc |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 asked | nsubj |
| 28 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | conj |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 audience | det |
| 30 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 asked | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 king | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 king | det |
| 33 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 audience | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 told | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 told | cc |
| 36 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | conj |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 told | iobj |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 wished | mark |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 wished | nsubj |
| 40 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 told | ccomp |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 seek | mark |
| 42 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 wished | xcomp |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 princess | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 princess | det |
| 45 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 seek | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the youth | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot youth=Theme | |||||
| 2 | read | past | youth | this proclamation | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proclamation=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not is a | ought | that | a difficult matter | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | youth | a audience of the king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent audience=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | youth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | wish | past | youth | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | seek not said to happen | to-infinitive | youth not said here | for the princess | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for princess=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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