The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 60
The king, much disgusted at this news, and not knowing what to do, returned home and told his wife that, though he had ridden for miles, he had come across nothing but a hermit and a nun in a cell.
Who acts: that, king · What happens: disgust, not know, do, returned, tell, wife · To what, where: king, news, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (that, 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 | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 disgusted | punct |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 disgusted | advmod |
| 5 | disgusted | disgust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 king | acl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 news | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 news | det |
| 8 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 disgusted | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 knowing | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 knowing | cc |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 knowing | advmod |
| 12 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 king | conj |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 do | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 do | mark |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 knowing | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 returned | punct |
| 17 | returned | returned | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 do | conj |
| 18 | home | home | ADV | _ | 17 returned | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 told | cc |
| 20 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 wife | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 told | iobj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 wife | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 ridden | punct |
| 25 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 28 ridden | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 ridden | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 ridden | aux |
| 28 | ridden | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 do | conj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 miles | case |
| 30 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 ridden | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 come | punct |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 come | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 come | aux |
| 34 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 king | parataxis |
| 35 | across | across | ADP | _ | 36 nothing | case |
| 36 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 34 come | obl |
| 37 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 hermit | cc |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 hermit | det |
| 39 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 nothing | conj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 nun | cc |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 nun | det |
| 42 | nun | nun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 nothing | conj |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 cell | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 cell | det |
| 45 | cell | cell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 nun | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 king | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disgust | participle | the king not said here | this news | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not know | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | returned | infinitive | home property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient | ||||||
| 6 | wife | that | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | ride | past · perfect | king | for miles | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | come | past · perfect | king | nothing | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across nothing=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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