The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 49
But the king felt ashamed of himself, and held on to it tightly, while the presence of the princess put him in a better temper.
Who acts: king, presence · What happens: feel, hold on, put · To what, where: bundle, king, better temper
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, presence), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 felt | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 felt | xcomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 himself | case |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 ashamed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 held | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 held | cc |
| 10 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 felt | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 held | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 held | obl |
| 14 | tightly | tightly | ADV | _ | 10 held | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 put | punct |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 put | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 presence | det |
| 18 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 put | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 princess | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 princess | det |
| 21 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 presence | nmod |
| 22 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 held | parataxis |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 put | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 temper | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 temper | det |
| 26 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 temper | amod |
| 27 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 put | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the king | ashamed property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hold on | participle | the king not said here | bundle | tightly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | put | past | the presence of the princess | king | a better temper | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in temper=Destination |
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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