The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 11
It took a good while for the king to get home again, and he was rather cross at having had so much trouble for nothing.
Who acts: It, king · What happens: take, get, be, have · To what, where: much trouble
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 while | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 while | amod |
| 5 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 king | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 took | advcl |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 get | advmod |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 get | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cross | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cross | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 cross | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 cross | cop |
| 17 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 18 cross | advmod |
| 18 | cross | cross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 took | parataxis |
| 19 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 21 had | mark |
| 20 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 had | aux |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 cross | advcl |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 much | advmod |
| 23 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 trouble | amod |
| 24 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 nothing | case |
| 26 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 24 trouble | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | It | while | for the king | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for king=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | again | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is | past | king | cross property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | gerund · perfect | king not said here | much trouble | for nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Patient |
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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