The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 71
The King was terribly angry at being thwarted like this.
Who acts: King · What happens: be, thwart
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 angry | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | cop |
| 4 | terribly | terribly | ADV | _ | 5 angry | advmod |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 8 thwarted | mark |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 thwarted | aux:pass |
| 8 | thwarted | thwart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 angry | advcl |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 this | case |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 thwarted | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King | angry, terribly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | thwart | gerund · passive | the King not said here | like this | tree rules |
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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