The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 60
Just then a furious war broke out between the King his master and the Sovereign of the adjoining country, who was a bad man and one that never kept his word.
Who acts: furious war, master, King · What happens: break out, adjoin, be, not keep, word · To what, where: bad man
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (furious war, master, 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 6 broke | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 broke | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 war | det |
| 4 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 war | amod |
| 5 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 broke | nsubj |
| 6 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 broke | compound:prt |
| 8 | between | between | ADP | _ | 10 King | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 broke | obl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 master | nmod:poss |
| 12 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 broke | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Sovereign | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Sovereign | det |
| 15 | Sovereign | Sovereign | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 master | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 country | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 country | det |
| 18 | adjoining | adjoin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 country | amod |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Sovereign | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 man | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 man | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 man | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 24 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 man | amod |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 master | appos |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 one | cc |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 man | conj |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 kept | obj |
| 29 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 30 kept | advmod |
| 30 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 man | acl:relcl |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 word | nmod:poss |
| 32 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 kept | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break out | past | a furious war | then | between the King | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between king=Location | |||
| 2 | adjoin | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | King's master and the Sovereign of the adjoining country | a bad man | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not keep | past | a bad man | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Theme word=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | word | King | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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