The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 2
When they grew up, he was suddenly seized with a wish to know if they, on their part, truly loved him, and he made up his mind that he would give his kingdom to whichever best proved her devotion.
Who acts: daughters, King, her · What happens: grow up, seize, know, love, make up, give · To what, where: King, mind, kingdom, whichever
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters, King, her), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 grew | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 grew | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seized | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 seized | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 seized | aux:pass |
| 8 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 9 seized | advmod |
| 9 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 grew | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 wish | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 wish | det |
| 12 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seized | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 know | mark |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 seized | advcl |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 part | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 part | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 part | punct |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 part | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 part | nmod:poss |
| 20 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 know | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 loved | punct |
| 22 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 23 loved | advmod |
| 23 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 seized | parataxis |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 loved | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 made | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 made | cc |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 made | nsubj |
| 28 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 loved | conj |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 made | compound:prt |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 mind | nmod:poss |
| 31 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 made | obj |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 give | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 give | nsubj |
| 34 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 give | aux |
| 35 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 made | advcl |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 37 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 give | obj |
| 38 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 41 proved | mark |
| 39 | whichever | whichever | DET | PronType=Rel | 41 proved | obj |
| 40 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 41 proved | advmod |
| 41 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 give | advcl |
| 42 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 devotion | nmod:poss |
| 43 | devotion | devotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 proved | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | past | daughters = daughter | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | seize | past · passive | King | with a wish; suddenly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | love | past | King | truly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | make up | past | King | King's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 6 | give | would | King | King's kingdom | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme | ||||
| 7 | prove | past | King not said here | whichever | well property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent whichever=Theme devotion=Attribute | |||
| 8 | mind | King | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | devote | her = she | nom devotion «feeling 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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