The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 62
Some time passed, and he noticed how the king always went about sorrowing and grieving, and was never glad or happy.
Who acts: time, youth, king · What happens: pass, notice, go, sorrow, grieve, not be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, youth, king), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 noticed | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 noticed | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 noticed | nsubj |
| 7 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 went | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | nsubj |
| 11 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 12 went | advmod |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 noticed | ccomp |
| 13 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 14 sorrowing | mark |
| 14 | sorrowing | sorrow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 went | advcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 grieving | cc |
| 16 | grieving | grieve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 sorrowing | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 glad | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 glad | cc |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 glad | cop |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 glad | advmod |
| 21 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 noticed | parataxis |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 happy | cc |
| 23 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 glad | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | some time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | notice | past | youth | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | go | past | the king | always property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sorrow | gerund | the king not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | grieve | gerund | the king not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | not is | past | glad property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | be | tree rules |
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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