The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 46
The King grew as white as a sheet when he heard the Prince’s story, and said, ‘Woe is me, my son!
Who acts: King, Woe · What happens: grow, hear, say, be · To what, where: story, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Woe), 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 | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 white | advmod |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 sheet | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sheet | det |
| 8 | sheet | sheet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 white | obl |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 heard | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Prince | det |
| 13 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 story | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Prince | case |
| 15 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 me | punct |
| 20 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 me | punct |
| 21 | Woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 me | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 me | cop |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 said | ccomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 son | punct |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 son | nmod:poss |
| 26 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 me | conj |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the King | white property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | KING | the Prince's story | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | Woe | me | 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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