The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 62
Then the king was very angry and cried, ‘Judge my faithless wife!
Who acts: king · What happens: be, cry, judge · To what, where: faithless wife
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 angry | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 angry | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 angry | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 angry | advmod |
| 6 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 cried | cc |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 angry | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Judge | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 Judge | punct |
| 11 | Judge | judge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 cried | advcl |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | faithless | faithless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wife | amod |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Judge | obj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king | then | angry property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the king not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | judge | infinitive | the king not said here | my faithless wife | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent wife=Value |
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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