The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 91
The king longed so much to get a sight of his daughter, and the queen no less than he, but she knew that it was not like other children, for it could speak immediately after it was born, and was as wise as older folk.
Who acts: king, queen, sight · What happens: long, get, know, not be, speak, bear · To what, where: much, sight, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here
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, queen, sight), 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 longed | nsubj |
| 3 | longed | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 longed | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 get | mark |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 much | acl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sight | det |
| 9 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 daughter | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sight | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 less | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 less | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 queen | det |
| 16 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 less | nsubj |
| 17 | no | no | ADV | _ | 18 less | advmod |
| 18 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 longed | conj |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 he | case |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 less | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 knew | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 knew | cc |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 knew | nsubj |
| 24 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 longed | parataxis |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 children | mark |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 children | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 children | cop |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 children | advmod |
| 29 | like | like | ADP | _ | 31 children | case |
| 30 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 children | amod |
| 31 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 knew | ccomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 speak | punct |
| 33 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 36 speak | mark |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 speak | nsubj |
| 35 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 speak | aux |
| 36 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 knew | conj |
| 37 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 36 speak | advmod |
| 38 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 41 born | mark |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 born | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 born | aux:pass |
| 41 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 speak | advcl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 wise | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 wise | cc |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 wise | cop |
| 45 | as | as | ADV | _ | 46 wise | advmod |
| 46 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 longed | parataxis |
| 47 | as | as | ADP | _ | 49 folk | case |
| 48 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 49 folk | amod |
| 49 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 wise | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 longed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | long | past | the king | much | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | a sight of child's daughter | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | know | past | queen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | not is | past | sight | like other children | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | speak speech: other | could | sight | immediately property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | bear | past · passive | sight | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 7 | is | past | as older folk; wise property | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | sight | child's daughter | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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