The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 93
But I know this from my sweetheart, that when he came to the palace door and saw the royal guards in silver, and on the stairs the footmen in gold, he was not the least bit put out.
Who acts: I, Kay · What happens: know, come, see, not put out · To what, where: this, sweetheart, palace door, royal guards, silver, Kay
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Kay), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 know | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 know | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 sweetheart | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sweetheart | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sweetheart | sweetheart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 know | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 came | mark |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 came | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 door | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 door | det |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 door | compound |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 saw | cc |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 came | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 guards | det |
| 20 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 guards | amod |
| 21 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 saw | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 silver | case |
| 23 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 guards | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 put | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 put | cc |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 stairs | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 stairs | det |
| 28 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 put | obl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 footmen | det |
| 30 | footmen | footman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 stairs | conj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 gold | case |
| 32 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 footmen | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 stairs | punct |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 put | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 put | aux:pass |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 put | advmod |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 bit | det |
| 38 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 39 bit | amod |
| 39 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 put | obl:unmarked |
| 40 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 came | conj |
| 41 | out | out | ADP | _ | 40 put | compound:prt |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | this | my sweetheart | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | come | past | Kay | the palace door | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Kay not said here | the royal guards | silver | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer guard=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | not put out | past · passive | Kay | the stairs and the footmen in gold | the least bit obl:unmarked | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on stair=Destination |
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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