The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 59
For a moment Souci was very much cast down on hearing this, but then he plucked up.
Who acts: king · What happens: cast down, hear, pluck up · To what, where: this
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), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cast | obl |
| 4 | Souci | Souci | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 moment | appos |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cast | aux:pass |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 8 cast | advmod |
| 8 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 cast | compound:prt |
| 10 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 11 hearing | mark |
| 11 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 cast | advcl |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 hearing | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 plucked | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 plucked | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 plucked | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 plucked | nsubj |
| 17 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cast | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 plucked | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cast down | past · passive | moment | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 2 | hear | gerund | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | pluck up | past | king | then | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: 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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