The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 19
Then Ciccu went back to the Court and served the king, and the king loved him.
Who acts: Ciccu, king · What happens: go back, serve, love · To what, where: king, Ciccu
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 (Ciccu, 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 | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Court | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Court | det |
| 7 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 served | cc |
| 9 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 served | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 loved | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 loved | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 loved | nsubj |
| 16 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 loved | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | Ciccu | then | to the Court result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to court=Result | |||
| 2 | serve | past | Ciccu not said here | the king | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | love | past | the king | Ciccu | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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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