The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 54
At this moment in came the King and Queen, and interrupted them by asking all the questions imaginable, and not infrequently the same over and over again.
Who acts: King · What happens: come, interrupt, ask · To what, where: King, questions
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4. 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | nmod |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Queen | cc |
| 9 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 King | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 interrupted | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 interrupted | cc |
| 12 | interrupted | interrupt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 interrupted | obj |
| 14 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 15 asking | mark |
| 15 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 interrupted | advcl |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 questions | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 questions | det |
| 18 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 asking | obj |
| 19 | imaginable | imaginable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 asking | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 same | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 same | cc |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 same | advmod |
| 23 | infrequently | infrequently | ADV | _ | 25 same | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 same | det |
| 25 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 came | parataxis |
| 26 | over | over | ADV | _ | 25 same | advmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 again | cc |
| 28 | over | over | ADV | _ | 29 again | advmod |
| 29 | again | again | ADV | _ | 26 over | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the King and Queen | moment | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | interrupt | past | the King and Queen not said here | King | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | gerund | the King and Queen not said here | all questions | imaginable property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |
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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