The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 63
The king fell on her neck, and thanked her and kissed her, but the queen and the elder girl had nothing for her but laughs and jeers.
Who acts: king, queen · What happens: fall, thank, kiss, have, laugh, jeer · To what, where: neck, daughter, nothing
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 (king, queen), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 neck | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 neck | nmod:poss |
| 6 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thanked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 thanked | cc |
| 9 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thanked | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 kissed | cc |
| 12 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thanked | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 kissed | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 had | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 had | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 queen | det |
| 17 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 had | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 girl | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 girl | det |
| 20 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 girl | amod |
| 21 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 queen | conj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | parataxis |
| 23 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 had | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 had | obl |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 laughs | cc |
| 27 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 had | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 jeers | cc |
| 29 | jeers | jeer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 laughs | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the king | daughter's neck | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on neck=Location | ||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | past | the king not said here | daughter | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | kiss | past | the king not said here | daughter | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | have | past | the queen and the elder girl | nothing | for daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | |||
| 5 | laugh | present | the queen and the elder girl not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | jeer | present | the queen and the elder girl not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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