The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 17
The king woke at this, thinking at first that he had fallen into a den of robbers, but he decided to keep quiet and pretend that he was asleep until he should find out what kind of folk were in the house.
Who acts: king, kind · What happens: wake, think, fall, decide, keep, be · To what, where: this, den, house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, kind), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 woke | nsubj |
| 3 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 woke | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thinking | punct |
| 7 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 woke | advcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 first | case |
| 9 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 thinking | obl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 fallen | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fallen | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fallen | aux |
| 13 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 thinking | advcl |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 den | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 den | det |
| 16 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fallen | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 robbers | case |
| 18 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 den | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 decided | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 decided | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 decided | nsubj |
| 22 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 woke | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 keep | mark |
| 24 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 decided | xcomp |
| 25 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 keep | xcomp |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 pretend | cc |
| 27 | pretend | pretend | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 quiet | conj |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 asleep | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 asleep | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 asleep | cop |
| 31 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 keep | xcomp |
| 32 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 35 find | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 find | nsubj |
| 34 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 find | aux |
| 35 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 asleep | advcl |
| 36 | out | out | ADP | _ | 35 find | compound:prt |
| 37 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 38 kind | det |
| 38 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 house | nsubj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 folk | case |
| 40 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 kind | nmod |
| 41 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 house | cop |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 house | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 house | det |
| 44 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 find | ccomp |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | past | the king | this | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | the king not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fall | past · perfect | king | into a den of robbers result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into den=Result | ||||
| 4 | decide | past | king | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | king not said here | quiet property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | is | past | king | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | find out | should | king | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | is | past | what kind of folk | the house | tree rules |
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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