The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 40
Presently the King appeared, and the parrot noticed with joy how much he was disliked.
Who acts: King, parrot · What happens: appear, notice, dislike · To what, where: much, parrot
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (King, parrot), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 4 appeared | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 appeared | nsubj |
| 4 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 noticed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 noticed | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 parrot | det |
| 8 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 noticed | nsubj |
| 9 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 appeared | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 joy | case |
| 11 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 noticed | obl |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 much | advmod |
| 13 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 noticed | obj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 disliked | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 disliked | aux:pass |
| 16 | disliked | dislike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 much | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the King | presently property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | notice | past | the parrot | much | with joy | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | dislike | past · passive | parrot | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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