The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 174
However, they took care that the King and Queen were always supplied with everything they could wish for.
Who acts: King · What happens: take, supply, wish · To what, where: care, King
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 supplied | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 supplied | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Queen | cc |
| 10 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 King | conj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 supplied | aux:pass |
| 12 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 supplied | advmod |
| 13 | supplied | supply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 took | advcl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 everything | case |
| 15 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 13 supplied | obl |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wish | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 wish | aux |
| 18 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 everything | acl:relcl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 wish | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | King | care | however property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | |||
| 2 | supply | past · passive | the King and Queen | with everything; always property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with everything=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wish | could | King | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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