The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 102
The king was still more rejoiced over the boar than he had been over the dove, and did not know what to give the brothers for it.
Who acts: king · What happens: rejoice, be, not know, give · To what, where: king, boar, brothers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rejoiced | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rejoiced | aux |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 rejoiced | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 rejoiced | advmod |
| 6 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 boar | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boar | det |
| 9 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rejoiced | obl |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 dove | case |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 dove | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 dove | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 dove | cop |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 dove | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dove | det |
| 16 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rejoiced | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 know | cc |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 know | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 know | advmod |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 rejoiced | conj |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 give | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 give | mark |
| 24 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 know | ccomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 brothers | det |
| 26 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 give | obj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 give | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rejoiced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice | past · passive | the king | the boar | still | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | king | than the dove | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | give | to-infinitive | the brothers | for dove | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent what=Recipient brother=Theme for it=Asset |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/28/102/