The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 23
And in his great joy the King did not know that the woman he held in his arms was not his own dear wife, but a wicked witch.
Who acts: King, woman, arms · What happens: not know, hold, not be, joy · To what, where: great joy
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, woman, arms), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 know | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 joy | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 joy | nmod:poss |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 joy | amod |
| 5 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 know | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 know | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 know | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 know | advmod |
| 10 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 held | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 woman | det |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 held | nsubj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 held | nsubj |
| 15 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 know | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 wife | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 arms | nmod:poss |
| 18 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 wife | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 wife | cop |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 wife | advmod |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 wife | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 wife | amod |
| 23 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 wife | amod |
| 24 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 held | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 witch | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 witch | cc |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 witch | det |
| 28 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 witch | amod |
| 29 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wife | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | the King | King's great joy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | the woman | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not is | past | King's arms | in King's own dear wife but a wicked witch | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | joy | King | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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