The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 37
About this time the King came home from his expedition, and thought it a great blow that no one knew what had become of Hermod; but the Queen consoled him as best she could, and after a time the King thought less about his disappearance.
Who acts: King, one, Queen, wooer · What happens: come, think, know, become, console, disappear · To what, where: expedition, great blow, wooer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, one, Queen, wooer), 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 | About | about | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | 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 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 expedition | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 expedition | nmod:poss |
| 10 | expedition | expedition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 thought | cc |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 thought | obj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 blow | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 blow | amod |
| 17 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thought | obj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 knew | obj |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 one | det |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 knew | nsubj |
| 21 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 blow | acl:relcl |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 become | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 become | aux |
| 24 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 knew | ccomp |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Hermod | case |
| 26 | Hermod | Hermod | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 become | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 consoled | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 consoled | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Queen | det |
| 30 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 consoled | nsubj |
| 31 | consoled | console | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 consoled | obj |
| 33 | as | as | ADV | _ | 34 best | advmod |
| 34 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 31 consoled | obj |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 could | nsubj |
| 36 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 consoled | advcl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 thought | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 thought | cc |
| 39 | after | after | ADP | _ | 41 time | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 time | det |
| 41 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 thought | obl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 King | det |
| 43 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 thought | nsubj |
| 44 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 45 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 44 thought | advmod |
| 46 | about | about | ADP | _ | 48 disappearance | case |
| 47 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 disappearance | nmod:poss |
| 48 | disappearance | disappearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 thought | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the King | wooer's expedition | time | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from expedition=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the King not said here | expedition | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme blow=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | know | past | no one | a great blow | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | become | past · perfect | of Hermod | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | console | past | the Queen | wooer | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer good=Result | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other | past | the King | time | about wooer's disappearance; less property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about disappearance=Topic | |||
| 7 | disappear | wooer | nom disappearance «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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