The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 78
The King, filled with astonishment, turned to his real son and asked, ‘Was it not you, my son, who conquered my enemies and won such a glorious peace?
Who acts: King, astonishment, son · What happens: fill, turn, ask, not be, conquer, win · To what, where: King, you, enemies, glorious peace
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 (King, astonishment, son), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 filled | punct |
| 4 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 King | acl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 astonishment | case |
| 6 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 filled | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 turned | punct |
| 8 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 son | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 son | amod |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turned | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asked | cc |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 turned | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 you | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 you | punct |
| 17 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 you | cop |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 you | nsubj |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 you | advmod |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 son | punct |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 son | nmod:poss |
| 23 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 you | appos |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 conquered | punct |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 conquered | nsubj |
| 26 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 son | acl:relcl |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 28 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 conquered | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 won | cc |
| 30 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 conquered | conj |
| 31 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 peace | det:predet |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 peace | det |
| 33 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 peace | amod |
| 34 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 won | obj |
| 35 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | participle | the King not said here | with astonishment | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with astonishment=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | the King | to King's real son result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to son=Result | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the King not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not is a | past | astonishment | you | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | conquer | past | my son | my enemies | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Patient | ||||
| 6 | win | past | my son not said here | such glorious peace | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Eventuality |
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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