The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 41
The king stared with surprise at the sight of the ring, but he thought of another way of getting rid of the young man which was surer even than the other two.
Who acts: king, way, young man · What happens: stare, think, get, be, sight · To what, where: ring
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, way, young man), 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 | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stared | nsubj |
| 3 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 surprise | case |
| 5 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stared | obl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 sight | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sight | det |
| 8 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stared | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 ring | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ring | det |
| 11 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sight | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 thought | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 thought | nsubj |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stared | parataxis |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 way | case |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 way | det |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thought | obl |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 getting | mark |
| 20 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 way | acl |
| 21 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 getting | xcomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 man | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 24 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 man | amod |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rid | obl |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 surer | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 surer | cop |
| 28 | surer | sure | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 man | acl:relcl |
| 29 | even | even | ADV | _ | 33 two | advmod |
| 30 | than | than | ADP | _ | 33 two | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 two | det |
| 32 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 two | amod |
| 33 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 surer | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | past | the king | with surprise; at the sight of the ring | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sight=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | king | of another way | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | get | gerund | another way not said here | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the young man | than the other two; sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sight | the ring | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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