The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 46
This was the King of the Snakes coming in state to his palace.
Who acts: This, Snakes · What happens: be, come · To what, where: King, state
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Snakes), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 King | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 King | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Snakes | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Snakes | det |
| 7 | Snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 King | nmod |
| 8 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 Snakes | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 state | case |
| 10 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 coming | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 palace | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 palace | nmod:poss |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 coming | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 King | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | the King | of the Snakes | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come | gerund | the Snakes not said here | state | to King's palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location |
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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