The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 55
The whole capital was in a stir, and everyone shared in the King’s joy; the Prince alone took no part in the festivities.
Who acts: whole capital, Prince, King · What happens: be, share, take, joy · To what, where: stir, joy, part, festivities
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole capital, Prince, King), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 capital | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 capital | amod |
| 3 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stir | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stir | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 stir | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 stir | det |
| 7 | stir | stir | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 everyone | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 everyone | cc |
| 10 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 stir | conj |
| 11 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 everyone | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 joy | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 joy | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 King | case |
| 16 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shared | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 took | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Prince | det |
| 19 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 took | nsubj |
| 20 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 21 took | advmod |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stir | conj |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 part | det |
| 23 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 festivities | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 festivities | det |
| 26 | festivities | festivity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 took | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stir | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the whole capital | a stir | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | share | participle | the King's joy | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take | past | the Prince | no part | the festivities | alone property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in festivity=Location | ||
| 4 | joy | the 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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