The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 129

Then the king was beside himself with passion, and screamed out, ‘Is this a plot to mock me?

Who acts: king · What happens: be, scream out, mock · To what, where: passion, plot, me

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 himself	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 himself	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 himself	cop
5	beside	beside	ADP	_	6 himself	case
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 plot	nsubj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 passion	case
8	passion	passion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 himself	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 screamed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 screamed	cc
11	screamed	scream	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 passion	acl:relcl
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 screamed	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 passion	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 himself	punct
15	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 plot	cop
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 plot	det
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 plot	det
18	plot	plot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
19	to	to	PART	_	20 mock	mark
20	mock	mock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 plot	acl
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 mock	obj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 plot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the king		then	beside king; with passion	tree rules
2	scream out speech: express	participle		passion not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	king	this plot			tree rules
4	mock	to-infinitive		me			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme

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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