The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 68
The king gladly agreed to all that the youth proposed, and it was now high time for them to set out.
Who acts: king, youth, harm, kings · What happens: agree, propose, be, set out · To what, where: high time · 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 (king, youth, harm, kings), 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 | 4 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 4 agreed | advmod |
| 4 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 10 proposed | mark |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 proposed | det:predet |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 proposed | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 youth | det |
| 9 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 proposed | nsubj |
| 10 | proposed | propose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 agreed | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 time | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 time | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 time | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 time | cop |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 high | advmod |
| 16 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 time | amod |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 proposed | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 set | mark |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 set | nsubj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 set | mark |
| 21 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 time | acl |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 set | compound:prt |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the king | gladly property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | propose not said to happen | participle | the youth | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | harm | high time | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | set out | to-infinitive | kings = king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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