The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 18
When the king awoke and found that the tree to which he had tied his horse had its lowest branch broken, and that nothing living was in sight, he was much dismayed, and sought high and low for his lost treasure, but all in vain.
Who acts: king, tree, lowest branch, nothing living · What happens: awake, find, tie, have, break, be · To what, where: king, lowest branch, sight · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (king, tree, lowest branch, nothing living), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 awoke | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 awoke | nsubj |
| 4 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 found | cc |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 awoke | conj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 had | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 tied | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 tied | aux |
| 14 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 tree | acl:relcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 horse | nmod:poss |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tied | obj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | ccomp |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 branch | nmod:poss |
| 19 | lowest | low | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 branch | amod |
| 20 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 21 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 had | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 dismayed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 dismayed | cc |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 sight | mark |
| 25 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 26 living | compound |
| 26 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sight | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 sight | cop |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 sight | case |
| 29 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 dismayed | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sight | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 dismayed | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 dismayed | aux:pass |
| 33 | much | much | ADV | _ | 34 dismayed | advmod |
| 34 | dismayed | dismay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 awoke | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 sought | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 sought | cc |
| 37 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 awoke | conj |
| 38 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 sought | xcomp |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 low | cc |
| 40 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 high | conj |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 treasure | case |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 43 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 treasure | amod |
| 44 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 high | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 vain | punct |
| 46 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 49 vain | cc |
| 47 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 49 vain | nsubj |
| 48 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 vain | case |
| 49 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 awoke | parataxis |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | the king | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past | the king not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tie | past · perfect · passive | king | to the tree | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient horse=Result | ||||
| 4 | have | past | the tree | tree's lowest branch | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | break | participle | tree's lowest branch not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | is | past | nothing living | sight | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | dismay | past · passive | king | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | seek | past | the king not said here | high property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 10 | treasure | king | nom treasure «possession 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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