The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 111
And the king forgot how Ciccu had served him, and desired him to do as the princess had said.
Who acts: king, Ciccu · What happens: forget, serve, desire, do, say · To what, where: king, Ciccu, princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Ciccu), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 forgot | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forgot | nsubj |
| 4 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 served | advmod |
| 6 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 served | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 served | aux |
| 8 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 forgot | ccomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 served | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 desired | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 desired | cc |
| 12 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 forgot | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 desired | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 do | mark |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 desired | xcomp |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 said | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 princess | det |
| 18 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | aux |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 do | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 forgot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past | the king | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | serve | past · perfect | Ciccu | king | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | desire | past | the king not said here | Ciccu | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | the king not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
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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