The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 97
So while the King was still sitting at table finishing his dinner news was brought to him that his orders had been obeyed to the letter.
Who acts: King, sitting · What happens: sit, finish, bring, obey, order · To what, where: table, dinner news, King, orders
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, sitting), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 15 brought | advmod |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 sitting | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sitting | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sitting | aux |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 sitting | advmod |
| 7 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 brought | csubj:pass |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 table | case |
| 9 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sitting | obl |
| 10 | finishing | finish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 sitting | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 news | nmod:poss |
| 12 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 news | compound |
| 13 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 finishing | obj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 brought | aux:pass |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 brought | obl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 obeyed | mark |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 orders | nmod:poss |
| 20 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 obeyed | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 obeyed | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 obeyed | aux:pass |
| 23 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 brought | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 letter | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 letter | det |
| 26 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 obeyed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | the King | table | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location | |||
| 2 | finish | gerund | the King not said here | King's dinner news | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality news=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | bring | past · passive | sitting | King | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to he=Destination | ||||
| 4 | obey | past · perfect · passive | King's orders | to the letter | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | order | King | nom order «communication 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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