The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 76
Lastly the rumour of these wonders reached the ears of the king, who left his palace to behold these splendours with his own eyes.
Who acts: rumour, king, wonders · What happens: reach, leave, behold, rumour · To what, where: ears, palace, splendours
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 (rumour, king, wonders), 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 | Lastly | lastly | ADV | _ | 7 reached | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rumour | det |
| 3 | rumour | rumour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 wonders | case |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 wonders | det |
| 6 | wonders | wonder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rumour | nmod |
| 7 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ears | det |
| 9 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 reached | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 king | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ears | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 left | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 left | nsubj |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 king | acl:relcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 palace | nmod:poss |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 behold | case |
| 19 | behold | behold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 left | advcl |
| 20 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 splendours | det |
| 21 | splendours | splendour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 behold | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 eyes | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 eyes | amod |
| 25 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 splendours | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the rumour of this wonders | the ears of the king | lastly property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | |||
| 2 | leave | past | the king | Ciccu's palace | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | ||||
| 3 | behold | infinitive | the king not said here | this splendours | with Ciccu's own eyes | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer splendour=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | rumour | this wonders | nom rumour «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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