The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 26
The king immediately got out of bed, and laid the hundred dollars for him on the table, and then wanted to question him.
Who acts: king · What happens: get out, lay, want, question · To what, where: bed, hundred dollars, table, king
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 got | nsubj |
| 3 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 bed | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 bed | case |
| 7 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 laid | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 laid | cc |
| 10 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dollars | det |
| 12 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 dollars | nummod |
| 13 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 laid | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 laid | obl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 table | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 table | det |
| 18 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 laid | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wanted | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 wanted | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 wanted | advmod |
| 22 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 question | mark |
| 24 | question | question | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 wanted | xcomp |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 question | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get out | past | the king | bed | immediately property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lay | past | the king not said here | the hundred dollars | the table | for king | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent dollar=Result for he=Beneficiary | ||
| 3 | want | past | the king not said here | then | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | question speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive | the king not said here | king | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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