The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 141
And the king did not know which was his son-in-law, but the princess knew which was her husband, and there were great rejoicings throughout the land.
Who acts: king, princess, great rejoicings · What happens: not know, be, know · To what, where: law, husband · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, princess, great rejoicings), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 know | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 know | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 know | advmod |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 law | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 law | cop |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 law | nmod:poss |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 law | nsubj |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 law | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 law | case |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 in | punct |
| 14 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 know | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 knew | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 knew | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 princess | det |
| 18 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 knew | nsubj |
| 19 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | parataxis |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 husband | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 husband | cop |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 husband | nmod:poss |
| 23 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 knew | ccomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 were | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 were | cc |
| 26 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 27 were | expl |
| 27 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 knew | conj |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 rejoicings | amod |
| 29 | rejoicings | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 were | nsubj |
| 30 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 32 land | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 land | det |
| 32 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 rejoicings | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | the king | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | king's law | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | know | past | the princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | princess's husband | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | be | past | great rejoicings throughout the land | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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