The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 161
‘Hush!’ interrupted the King, who did not like the subject.
Who acts: King · What happens: interrupt, not like · To what, where: King, subject
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 interrupted | punct |
| 2 | Hush | hush | INTJ | _ | 5 interrupted | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hush | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 interrupted | punct |
| 5 | interrupted | interrupt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 interrupted | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 like | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 like | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 like | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 like | advmod |
| 12 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 King | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 subject | det |
| 14 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 like | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 interrupted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | interrupt | past | the King | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not like | past · do-support | the King | the subject | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme |
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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