The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 113
No sooner was the revolt put down than the Council turned their attention to the question of the young king’s marriage.
Who acts: revolt, Council, spears, young king · What happens: be, turn, attend, question, marry · To what, where: attention, question, marriage
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (revolt, Council, spears, young 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 put | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 put | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 revolt | det |
| 5 | revolt | revolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | nsubj |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 put | compound:prt |
| 8 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 11 turned | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Council | det |
| 10 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | nsubj |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 put | advcl |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 attention | nmod:poss |
| 13 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 question | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 question | det |
| 16 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 marriage | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 king | det |
| 19 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 king | amod |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 king | case |
| 22 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 question | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the revolt | put, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | the Council | spears's attention | the question of the young king's marriage | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent attention=Theme to question=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | attend | spears = spear | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | question | the young king's marriage | nom question «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | marry | the young king | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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