The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 91
The King was delighted to see them all again, and at once drew the ring from his finger and the trial began.
Who acts: King, trial · What happens: be, see, draw, begin · To what, where: caravans, ring, finger
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, trial), 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 | 4 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | cop |
| 4 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 delighted | advcl |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 see | obj |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 see | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 drew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 drew | cc |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 once | case |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 drew | obl |
| 14 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ring | det |
| 16 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drew | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 finger | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 finger | nmod:poss |
| 19 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ring | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 began | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 trial | det |
| 22 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 began | nsubj |
| 23 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 drew | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the King not said here | caravans = caravan | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | draw | past | the ring | Prince's finger | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent ring=Theme from finger=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | the trial | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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