The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 64
As the king rode up, the gardener looked up from the tree which he was trimming and asked if anything was the matter.
Who acts: king, gardener, tree, anything · What happens: ride up, look up, trim, ask, be · To what, where: matter
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, gardener, tree, anything), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 rode | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rode | nsubj |
| 4 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 looked | advcl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 rode | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 rode | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gardener | det |
| 8 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looked | nsubj |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 looked | compound:prt |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looked | obl |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 trimming | nsubj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 trimming | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 trimming | aux |
| 17 | trimming | trim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 tree | acl:relcl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 asked | cc |
| 19 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 looked | conj |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 matter | mark |
| 21 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 24 matter | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 matter | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 matter | det |
| 24 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 asked | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride up | past | the king | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | look up | past | the gardener | from the tree | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from tree=Theme | ||||
| 3 | trim | past · progressive | the tree | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | the gardener not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a a condition, not said to happen | past | anything | the matter | tree rules |
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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