The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 57
He is the heir of the kingdom, and his father will look after him.’
Who acts: happiness, father · What happens: be, look · To what, where: heir
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (happiness, father), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heir | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heir | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 heir | det |
| 4 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 kingdom | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 kingdom | det |
| 7 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heir | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 look | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 look | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 look | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 look | aux |
| 13 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 heir | parataxis |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 look | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heir | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 heir | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | happiness | the heir | of the kingdom | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look | future | happiness's father | after happiness | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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