The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 12
So Ciccu married the fairest in the world, and became king of the country.
Who acts: Ciccu · What happens: marry, become · To what, where: fairest, king
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 married | advmod |
| 2 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 married | nsubj |
| 3 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fairest | det |
| 5 | fairest | fair | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 married | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 world | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 world | det |
| 8 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fairest | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 became | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 became | cc |
| 11 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 married | conj |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 became | xcomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 country | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 country | det |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 king | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past | Ciccu | the fairest | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | become | past | Ciccu not said here | king of the country | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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