The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 60
After some years the king married again, but he did not love his second wife as he had done his first, and had only married her for reasons of ambition.
Who acts: king · What happens: marry, not love, do · To what, where: second wife, first, wife
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 (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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 years | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 years | det |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 married | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 married | nsubj |
| 6 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 married | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 love | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 love | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 love | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 love | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 love | advmod |
| 13 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 married | parataxis |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 wife | amod |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 love | obj |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 done | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 done | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 done | aux |
| 20 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 love | advcl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 first | nmod:poss |
| 22 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 done | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 married | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 married | cc |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 married | aux |
| 26 | only | only | ADV | _ | 27 married | advmod |
| 27 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 married | conj |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 married | obj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 reasons | case |
| 30 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 married | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 ambition | case |
| 32 | ambition | ambition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 reasons | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | participle | the king | again; year | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not love | past · do-support | king | king's second wife | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | king | king's first | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | marry | past · perfect | the king not said here | wife | for reasons of ambition | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
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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