The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 5
He made no objections to what they had arranged, and so Christian the smith held his wedding with the princess, and got half the kingdom at once, and the whole of it when the king died.
Who acts: king, objections, smith · What happens: make, arrange, hold, get, die, wed · To what, where: objections, wedding, kingdom
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, objections, smith), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 objections | det |
| 4 | objections | objection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 made | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 what | case |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 objections | nmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 arranged | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 arranged | aux |
| 9 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 what | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 held | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 held | cc |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 Christian | advmod |
| 13 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 smith | nmod:poss |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 smith | det |
| 15 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 held | nsubj |
| 16 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wedding | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 held | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 princess | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 princess | det |
| 21 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wedding | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 got | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 got | cc |
| 24 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 25 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 27 kingdom | det:predet |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 kingdom | det |
| 27 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 got | obj |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 once | case |
| 29 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 24 got | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 whole | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 whole | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 whole | det |
| 33 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 made | parataxis |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 it | case |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 whole | obl |
| 36 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 39 died | mark |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 king | det |
| 38 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 died | nsubj |
| 39 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 whole | advcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | king | no objections | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent objection=Product | ||||
| 2 | arrange | past · perfect | objections = objection | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hold | past | Christian's smith | king's wedding | with the princess | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedding=Theme | |||
| 4 | get | past | king not said here | half kingdom | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme at once=Asset | ||||
| 5 | die | past | the king | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | wed | king | with the princess | nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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