The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 2
They were very fond of each other and had nothing to worry them, but at last the king grew restless.
Who acts: king, last · What happens: be, have, worry, grow · To what, where: nothing, king
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, last), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fond | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fond | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 fond | advmod |
| 4 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 each | case |
| 6 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 4 fond | obl |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 each | fixed |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 had | cc |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fond | conj |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 had | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 worry | mark |
| 12 | worry | worry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 nothing | acl |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 worry | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 grew | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 grew | cc |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 last | case |
| 17 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 grew | nsubj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 last | nsubj |
| 20 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fond | conj |
| 21 | restless | restless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 grew | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fond | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | king | of each; fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | king not said here | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | worry | to-infinitive | king not said here | king | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | grow | past | last | restless property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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