The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 78
At last it came to the ears of the king what the brother said about his sister, and, besides that, the report of her beauty spread far and wide, so that the youth was summoned before the king, who asked him if everything was true that was told about the girl.
Who acts: palace, brother, report, king, everything · What happens: come, say, spread, summon, ask, be · To what, where: last, king, youth, stepson, that, beauty · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (palace, brother, report, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 came | obl |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 ears | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ears | det |
| 7 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 king | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ears | nmod |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 said | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 brother | det |
| 13 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 king | acl:relcl |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 sister | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 sister | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 spread | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 spread | cc |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 that | punct |
| 21 | besides | besides | ADP | _ | 22 that | case |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 spread | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 report | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 report | det |
| 25 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 spread | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 beauty | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 28 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 report | nmod |
| 29 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 30 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 spread | advmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 wide | cc |
| 32 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 far | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 summoned | punct |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 summoned | advmod |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 summoned | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 youth | det |
| 37 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 summoned | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 summoned | aux:pass |
| 39 | summoned | summon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 came | conj |
| 40 | before | before | ADP | _ | 42 king | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 king | det |
| 42 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 summoned | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 asked | punct |
| 44 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 asked | nsubj |
| 45 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 king | acl:relcl |
| 46 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 asked | iobj |
| 47 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 50 true | mark |
| 48 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 50 true | nsubj |
| 49 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 true | cop |
| 50 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 asked | ccomp |
| 51 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 53 told | nsubj:pass |
| 52 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 told | aux:pass |
| 53 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 50 true | parataxis |
| 54 | about | about | ADP | _ | 56 girl | case |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 girl | det |
| 56 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 told | obl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | palace | last | to the ears of the king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ear=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the brother | the king | about stepson's sister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||
| 3 | spread | past | the report of report's beauty | besides that; far property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | summon | past · passive | the youth | before the king | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | the king | stepson | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | everything | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | that | about the girl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient about girl=Topic | ||||
| 8 | report | report's beauty | nom report «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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