The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 9
When he heard these words, the king, whose head was full of the princess, never stopped to inquire if they could be true, and smeared himself over with fat, and sprang into the oven.
Who acts: Ciccu, head, words · What happens: hear, be, not stop, inquire, smear over, spring · To what, where: words, Ciccu, oven
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, head, words), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 words | det |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 heard | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 king | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 words | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 full | punct |
| 10 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 full | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 full | cop |
| 13 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 king | amod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 princess | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 princess | det |
| 16 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 full | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stopped | punct |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 stopped | advmod |
| 19 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 inquire | mark |
| 21 | inquire | inquire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 stopped | xcomp |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 true | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 true | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 true | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 true | cop |
| 26 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 inquire | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 smeared | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 smeared | cc |
| 29 | smeared | smear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 stopped | conj |
| 30 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 29 smeared | obj |
| 31 | over | over | ADP | _ | 29 smeared | compound:prt |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 fat | case |
| 33 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 smeared | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 sprang | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 sprang | cc |
| 36 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 39 oven | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 oven | det |
| 39 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 sprang | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Ciccu | this words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | head | of the princess; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not stop | past | Ciccu not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | inquire speech: other | to-infinitive | Ciccu not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a condition, not said to happen | could | words = word | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | smear over | past | Ciccu not said here | Ciccu | with fat | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Destination with fat=Theme | |||
| 7 | spring | past | Ciccu not said here | the oven | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into oven=Destination |
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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