The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 32
The king blushed at her words, which he felt had a great deal of truth in them, and took up the bundle meekly.
Who acts: king, words, Souci · What happens: blush, feel, have, take up, word, deal · To what, where: words, great deal, bundle, truth
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, words, Souci), 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 | 3 blushed | nsubj |
| 3 | blushed | blush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 words | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 words | nmod:poss |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 blushed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 felt | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 felt | nsubj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 felt | nsubj |
| 10 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 words | acl:relcl |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 felt | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 deal | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 deal | amod |
| 14 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 truth | case |
| 16 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 deal | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 truth | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 took | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 took | cc |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 blushed | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 took | compound:prt |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bundle | det |
| 24 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obj |
| 25 | meekly | meekly | ADV | _ | 21 took | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 blushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blush | past | the king | Souci's words | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | Souci's words | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | past | Souci's words not said here | a great deal of truth in words | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient | ||||
| 4 | take up | past | the king not said here | the bundle | meekly property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme | |||
| 5 | word | Souci | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | deal | truth in words | nom deal «act transitive»: of=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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