The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 62
In the evening the King came to look over their day’s work, as Red had proposed, and found that Ring’s wood-heap was more than twice as big.
Who acts: King, Red, wood heap, day · What happens: come, look, propose, find, be, work
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Red, wood heap, day), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 look | mark |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 came | xcomp |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 work | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 day | nmod:poss |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 work | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 day | case |
| 13 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 look | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 proposed | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 proposed | mark |
| 16 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 proposed | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 proposed | aux |
| 18 | proposed | propose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 look | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 found | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 found | cc |
| 21 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 more | mark |
| 23 | Ring | Ring | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 wood | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 Ring | case |
| 25 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 heap | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 wood | punct |
| 27 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 more | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 more | cop |
| 29 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 found | obj |
| 30 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 33 big | mark |
| 31 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 33 big | advmod |
| 32 | as | as | ADV | _ | 33 big | advmod |
| 33 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 more | advcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the King | evening | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | the King not said here | over King's day's work | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over work=Theme | ||||
| 3 | propose | past · perfect | Red | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | find | past | the King not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | wood heap | more property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | work | King's day | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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