The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 213
The King of the Low Countries was not a very scrupulous person, and his daughter took after him.
Who acts: King, daughter · What happens: not be, take · To what, where: scrupulous person
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, daughter), 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 | 12 person | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Countries | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Countries | det |
| 5 | Low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Countries | amod |
| 6 | Countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 King | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 person | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 person | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 person | det |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 scrupulous | advmod |
| 11 | scrupulous | scrupulous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 person | amod |
| 12 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | nsubj |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 person | conj |
| 18 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 person | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | the King of the Low Countries | a scrupulous person | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | King's daughter | after King | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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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