The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 109

The next that came into the world was the most beautiful little prince, and he was shown to the king and queen, who knew nothing about his brother the lindorm.

Who acts: next, world, king · What happens: come, be, show, know · To what, where: first, king, nothing

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next, world, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 next	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	13 prince	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 world	det
7	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 prince	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 prince	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 prince	det
10	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	11 beautiful	advmod
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 prince	amod
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 prince	amod
13	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shown	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 shown	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 shown	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 shown	aux:pass
18	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 came	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 king	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 king	det
21	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shown	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 queen	cc
23	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 king	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 knew	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 knew	nsubj
26	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 king	acl:relcl
27	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	26 knew	obj
28	about	about	ADP	_	30 brother	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 brother	nmod:poss
30	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 nothing	nmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 lindorm	det
32	lindorm	lindorm	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 brother	appos
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the next				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the world			into the beautiful little prince	tree rules
3	show	past · passive		first	the king and queen		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to king=Recipient
4	know	past	the king and queen	nothing		about first's brother	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus

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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