The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 118
The king then promised a large reward to the soldier who would volunteer for the post.
Who acts: king, soldier · What happens: promise, volunteer · To what, where: large reward, soldier
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, soldier), 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 | 4 promised | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 promised | advmod |
| 4 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 reward | det |
| 6 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 reward | amod |
| 7 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 promised | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 soldier | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 soldier | det |
| 10 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 promised | obl |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 volunteer | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 volunteer | aux |
| 13 | volunteer | volunteer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 soldier | acl:relcl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 post | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 post | det |
| 16 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 volunteer | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | the king | a large reward | then | to the soldier goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent reward=Theme to soldier=Goal | ||
| 2 | volunteer | would | the soldier | for the post | vn captain-29.8 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for post=Beneficiary |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/6/118/