The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 12
As to the other King, he was really fond of his wife, Queen Constance, but he often grieved her by his thoughtless ways, and in order to punish him for his carelessness, the fairies caused her to die quite suddenly.
Who acts: wedding, fairies · What happens: be, grieve, punish, cause, die · To what, where: wife, wedding
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wedding, fairies), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 5 King | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 King | amod |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 fond | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 King | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fond | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fond | cop |
| 9 | really | really | ADV | _ | 10 fond | advmod |
| 10 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 wife | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fond | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Queen | punct |
| 15 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 wife | appos |
| 16 | Constance | Constance | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Queen | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 grieved | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 grieved | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 grieved | nsubj |
| 20 | often | often | ADV | _ | 21 grieved | advmod |
| 21 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fond | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 grieved | obj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 ways | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 ways | nmod:poss |
| 25 | thoughtless | thoughtless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 ways | amod |
| 26 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 grieved | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 punish | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 punish | cc |
| 29 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 32 punish | mark |
| 30 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 in | fixed |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 punish | mark |
| 32 | punish | punish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 grieved | conj |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 punish | obj |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 carelessness | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 carelessness | nmod:poss |
| 36 | carelessness | carelessness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 punish | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 caused | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 fairies | det |
| 39 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 caused | nsubj |
| 40 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fond | conj |
| 41 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 caused | iobj |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 die | mark |
| 43 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 caused | xcomp |
| 44 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 45 suddenly | advmod |
| 45 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 43 die | advmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 fond | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | wedding | as the other King; of wedding's wife; fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grieve | past | wedding | wife | by wedding's thoughtless ways; often property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | punish | to-infinitive | wedding not said here | wedding | for wedding's carelessness | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Patient for carelessness=Theme | |||
| 4 | cause | past | the fairies | wife | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | die | to-infinitive | the fairies not said here | suddenly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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