The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 6
The King looked on them for a moment, and then, shaking his head sadly, he passed on in silence.
Who acts: King · What happens: look, shake, pass on · To what, where: head, silence
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 (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 | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | obl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 moment | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 moment | det |
| 8 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shaking | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 shaking | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 shaking | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shaking | punct |
| 13 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 looked | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shaking | obj |
| 16 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 13 shaking | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 passed | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 passed | nsubj |
| 19 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 passed | compound:prt |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 silence | case |
| 22 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 passed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the King | moment | on sons = son | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on they=Theme | |||
| 2 | shake | gerund | the King not said here | King's head | then | sadly property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||
| 3 | pass on | past | King | silence | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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