The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 35
So the King made a proclamation through his whole kingdom and ladies came from afar to lay claim to the honour.
Who acts: King, ladies · What happens: make, come, lay · To what, where: proclamation, whole kingdom, afar, claim
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 (King, ladies), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 made | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 proclamation | det |
| 6 | proclamation | proclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 kingdom | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 kingdom | amod |
| 10 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 12 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 afar | case |
| 15 | afar | afar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 came | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 lay | case |
| 17 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 came | advcl |
| 18 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lay | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 honour | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 honour | det |
| 21 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lay | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the King | a proclamation | King's whole kingdom | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proclamation=Product | |||
| 2 | come | past | ladies | afar | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from afar=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | lay | infinitive | ladies not said here | claim | to the honour | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Result |
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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