The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 29
The other king had not reckoned on the swiftness of his movements, and was not ready to receive him.
Who acts: other king, king · What happens: not reckon, not be, receive, move · To what, where: king
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other king, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reckoned | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reckoned | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 reckoned | advmod |
| 6 | reckoned | reckon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 swiftness | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 swiftness | det |
| 9 | swiftness | swiftness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reckoned | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 movements | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 movements | nmod:poss |
| 12 | movements | movement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 swiftness | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ready | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ready | cc |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 ready | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 ready | advmod |
| 17 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 reckoned | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 receive | mark |
| 19 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 ready | xcomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 receive | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 reckoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not reckon | past · perfect | the other king | on the swiftness of king's movements | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on swiftness=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | the other king not said here | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | receive | to-infinitive | the other king not said here | king | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | move | king | nom movement «act transitive»: 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 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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