The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 48
The servant departed and delivered the message, and the king wondered more than ever how anyone could be so rich.
Who acts: servant, king, anyone · What happens: depart, deliver, wonder, be · To what, where: message
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 (servant, king, anyone), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 servant | det |
| 2 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 departed | nsubj |
| 3 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 delivered | cc |
| 5 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 departed | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 message | det |
| 7 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 delivered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wondered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wondered | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wondered | nsubj |
| 12 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 departed | conj |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 wondered | advmod |
| 14 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 21 rich | mark |
| 15 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 rich | advmod |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 rich | advmod |
| 17 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 rich | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 rich | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 rich | cop |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 rich | advmod |
| 21 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 more | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 departed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depart | past | the servant | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | deliver | past | the servant not said here | the message | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Patient | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | past | the king | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | could | anyone | ever | rich property | tree rules |
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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