The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 56
The king got slowly up, groaning with pain, and dragged himself to the stables, where he saw the lean horse still in his stall.
Who acts: king · What happens: get up, groan, drag, see · To what, where: king, stables, lean horse, stall
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), 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 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 got | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 groaning | punct |
| 7 | groaning | groan | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 got | advcl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 pain | case |
| 9 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 groaning | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dragged | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dragged | cc |
| 12 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | parataxis |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 dragged | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 stables | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stables | det |
| 16 | stables | stable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 dragged | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 saw | punct |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 saw | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 dragged | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 horse | det |
| 22 | lean | lean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 horse | amod |
| 23 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 saw | obj |
| 24 | still | still | ADV | _ | 27 stall | advmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 stall | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 stall | nmod:poss |
| 27 | stall | stall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 saw | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | the king | slowly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | groan | gerund | the king not said here | with pain | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with pain=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drag | past | king | the stables | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to stable=Destination | ||||
| 4 | see | past | king | the lean horse | king's stall | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=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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