The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 31
The king professed to be quite satisfied, and asked him whether he would engage himself to stand on guard again the following night.
Who acts: king · What happens: profess, be, ask, engage, stand, follow · To what, where: king, guard
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 | 3 professed | nsubj |
| 3 | professed | profess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 satisfied | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 satisfied | cop |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 satisfied | advmod |
| 7 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 professed | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 asked | cc |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 professed | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | iobj |
| 12 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 15 engage | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 engage | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 engage | aux |
| 15 | engage | engage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 asked | xcomp |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 engage | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 stand | mark |
| 18 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 engage | xcomp |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 guard | case |
| 20 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stand | obl |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 stand | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 night | det |
| 23 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 night | amod |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stand | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 professed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | profess | past | the king | vn declare-29.4-1-1-2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | the king not said here | satisfied property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the king not said here | king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | engage not said to happen | would | king | king | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | stand | to-infinitive | king not said here | guard | again; night | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on guard=Location | |||
| 6 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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