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The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 7

The king looked on for a little, and then returned with his attendants to the palace, reflecting all the while on the extreme lightness of his proposed bride and the absurdity of having a wife that rose in the air better than any kite.

Who acts: king, absurdity, wife · What happens: look on, return, reflect, propose, have, rise · To what, where: wife, air

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, absurdity, wife), 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

detnsubjcompound:prtcasedetoblpunctccadvmodconjcasenmod:possoblcasedetoblpunctadvcldet:predetdetobjcasedetamodoblcasenmod:possamodnmodccdetconjmarkacldetobjnsubjacl:relclcasedetobladvmodcasedetoblpunctrootTheDETkingNOUNlookedVERBonADPforADPaDETlittleADJ,PUNCTandCCONJthenADVreturnedVERBwithADPhisPRONattendantsNOUNtoADPtheDETpalaceNOUN,PUNCTreflectingVERBallDETtheDETwhileNOUNonADPtheDETextremeADJlightnessNOUNofADPhisPRONproposedVERBbrideNOUNandCCONJtheDETabsurdityNOUNofSCONJhavingVERBaDETwifeNOUNthatPRONroseVERBinADPtheDETairNOUNbetterADVthanADPanyDETkiteNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 kingdet
2kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing3 lookednsubj
3lookedlookVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4ononADP_3 lookedcompound:prt
5forforADP_7 littlecase
6aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art7 littledet
7littlelittleADJDegree=Pos3 lookedobl
8,,PUNCT_11 returnedpunct
9andandCCONJ_11 returnedcc
10thenthenADVPronType=Dem11 returnedadvmod
11returnedreturnVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 lookedconj
12withwithADP_14 attendantscase
13hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs14 attendantsnmod:poss
14attendantsattendantNOUNNumber=Plur11 returnedobl
15totoADP_17 palacecase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 palacedet
17palacepalaceNOUNNumber=Sing11 returnedobl
18,,PUNCT_19 reflectingpunct
19reflectingreflectVERBVerbForm=Ger11 returnedadvcl
20allallDETPronType=Tot22 whiledet:predet
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 whiledet
22whilewhileNOUNNumber=Sing19 reflectingobj
23ononADP_26 lightnesscase
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 lightnessdet
25extremeextremeADJDegree=Pos26 lightnessamod
26lightnesslightnessNOUNNumber=Sing19 reflectingobl
27ofofADP_30 bridecase
28hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 bridenmod:poss
29proposedproposeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass30 brideamod
30bridebrideNOUNNumber=Sing26 lightnessnmod
31andandCCONJ_33 absurditycc
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 absurditydet
33absurdityabsurdityNOUNNumber=Sing30 brideconj
34ofofSCONJ_35 havingmark
35havinghaveVERBVerbForm=Ger33 absurdityacl
36aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art37 wifedet
37wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing35 havingobj
38thatthatPRONPronType=Rel39 rosensubj
39roseriseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin37 wifeacl:relcl
40ininADP_42 aircase
41thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art42 airdet
42airairNOUNNumber=Sing39 roseobl
43betterwellADVDegree=Cmp39 roseadvmod
44thanthanADP_46 kitecase
45anyanyDETPronType=Ind46 kitedet
46kitekiteNOUNNumber=Sing43 betterobl
47..PUNCT_3 lookedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1look onpastthe kingfor a littlevn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for little=Theme
2returnpastthe king not said herethenwith king's attendants; to the palace resultvn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result
3reflectgerundthe king not said herewhileon the extreme lightness of king's proposed bride and the absurdityvn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on lightness=Topic
4proposeparticiplevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5havegerundthe absurdity not said herea wifevn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
6risepasta wifethe airwell propertyvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location

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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