The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 88
The king watched her till she was quite out of sight, so as to make sure that she was not spying upon him; then he took the golden lion into his room and lifted some loose boards from the floor.
Who acts: king, woman · What happens: watch, be, make, not spy, take, lift · To what, where: woman, sight, golden lion, room, loose boards, floor
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, woman), 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 | 3 watched | nsubj |
| 3 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 watched | obj |
| 5 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 sight | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sight | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sight | cop |
| 8 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 11 sight | advmod |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 sight | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sight | case |
| 11 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 watched | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 make | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 make | mark |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 make | mark |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 watched | conj |
| 17 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 make | xcomp |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 spying | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 spying | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 spying | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 spying | advmod |
| 22 | spying | spy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 sure | ccomp |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 spying | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 took | punct |
| 26 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 took | advmod |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 took | nsubj |
| 28 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 watched | parataxis |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 lion | det |
| 30 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 lion | amod |
| 31 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 took | obj |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 room | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 room | nmod:poss |
| 34 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 took | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 lifted | cc |
| 36 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 took | conj |
| 37 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 39 boards | det |
| 38 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 boards | amod |
| 39 | boards | board | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 lifted | obj |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 42 floor | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 floor | det |
| 42 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 lifted | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | the king | woman | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | woman | sight | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | the king not said here | sure property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | not spy | past · progressive | woman | upon king | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | take | past | king | the golden lion | king's room | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lion=Theme into room=Destination | ||
| 6 | lift | past | king not said here | some loose boards | the floor | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent board=Theme from floor=Destination |
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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