The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 97
The king did not stay long, and when he left he handed over the lion to the maidens, who amused themselves with it for some time, till they got sleepy, and thought it was time to go to bed.
Who acts: king, maidens, Lion · What happens: not stay, leave, hand, amuse, get, think · To what, where: maidens, time, bed · 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 (king, maidens, Lion), 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 | 5 stay | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stay | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 stay | advmod |
| 5 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stay | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 handed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 handed | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 left | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 left | nsubj |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 handed | advcl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 handed | nsubj |
| 13 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stay | parataxis |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 lion | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lion | det |
| 16 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 handed | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 maidens | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 maidens | det |
| 19 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 handed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 amused | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 amused | nsubj |
| 22 | amused | amuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 maidens | acl:relcl |
| 23 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 amused | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 amused | obl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 time | case |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 time | det |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 amused | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 got | punct |
| 30 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 32 got | mark |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 got | nsubj |
| 32 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 amused | conj |
| 33 | sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 got | xcomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 thought | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 thought | cc |
| 36 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 handed | conj |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 time | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 time | cop |
| 39 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 thought | ccomp |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 go | mark |
| 41 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 time | acl |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 bed | case |
| 43 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 go | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stay | past · do-support | the king | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | king | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hand | past | king | the maidens | over the lion | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to maiden=Destination | |||
| 4 | amuse | past | the maidens | maidens = maiden | time | with Lion | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer | ||
| 5 | get | past | maidens = maiden | sleepy property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other | past | king not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is a | past | Lion | time | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | go | to-infinitive | king not said here | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location |
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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