The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 55
Every day the king fell more and more in love with Minon-Minette, and every day the princess seemed more and more taken up with other people.
Who acts: king, princess · What happens: fall, seem, take up · To what, where: love
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, princess), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 fell | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 more | cc |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 more | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 love | case |
| 10 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 Minon | case |
| 12 | Minon | Minon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 love | nmod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Minette | punct |
| 14 | Minette | Minette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Minon | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 seemed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 seemed | cc |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 day | det |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seemed | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 princess | det |
| 20 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seemed | nsubj |
| 21 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fell | conj |
| 22 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 taken | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 taken | cc |
| 24 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 taken | advmod |
| 25 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 seemed | xcomp |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 taken | compound:prt |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 people | case |
| 28 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 people | amod |
| 29 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 taken | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the king | love with Minon and Minette | day | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | |||
| 2 | seem | past | the princess | day | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | take up | participle | the princess not said here | with other people | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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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