The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 74
He asked his guards why he was treated like this, but the only answer he got was that he was in the territory of the Iron King, for in those days countries had no names of their own, but were called after their rulers.
Who acts: king, only answer, countries · What happens: ask, treat, get, be, have, call · To what, where: guards, king, only answer, territory, names · Speech: someone speaks here
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, only answer, countries), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 guards | nmod:poss |
| 4 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 asked | obj |
| 5 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 treated | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 treated | aux:pass |
| 8 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 asked | advcl |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 this | case |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 treated | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 territory | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 territory | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 answer | det |
| 14 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 answer | amod |
| 15 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 territory | nsubj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 got | nsubj |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 answer | acl:relcl |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 territory | cop |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 territory | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 territory | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 territory | cop |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 territory | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 territory | det |
| 24 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 King | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 King | det |
| 27 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 King | compound |
| 28 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 territory | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 had | punct |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 days | case |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 days | case |
| 32 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 33 days | det |
| 33 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 had | obl |
| 34 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 had | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | parataxis |
| 36 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 37 names | det |
| 37 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 had | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 own | case |
| 39 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 own | nmod:poss |
| 40 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 names | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 called | punct |
| 42 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 44 called | cc |
| 43 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 called | aux:pass |
| 44 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 asked | parataxis |
| 45 | after | after | ADP | _ | 47 rulers | case |
| 46 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 rulers | nmod:poss |
| 47 | rulers | ruler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 called | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | king | king's guards | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent guard=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | treat | past · passive | king | like this | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | get | past | king | the only answer not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the only answer | the territory | of the Iron King | tree rules | |||
| 5 | have | past | countries | no names of names's own | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | |||
| 6 | call | past · passive | after names's rulers | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
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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