The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 24
A miserable King who breaks his word, and goes about in a chariot drawn by croaking frogs out of a marsh!’
Who acts: miserable King, King · What happens: break, go about, draw, croak, word · To what, where: word, chariot, frogs, marsh
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (miserable King, King), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 2 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 King | amod |
| 3 | King | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 goes | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 breaks | nsubj |
| 5 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 King | acl:relcl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 word | nmod:poss |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 breaks | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 goes | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 goes | cc |
| 10 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 goes | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 chariot | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 chariot | det |
| 14 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 goes | obl |
| 15 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 chariot | acl |
| 16 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 17 croaking | mark |
| 17 | croaking | croak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 drawn | advcl |
| 18 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 croaking | obj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 marsh | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 marsh | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 marsh | det |
| 22 | marsh | marsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 croaking | obl |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 goes | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | present | a miserable King | King's word | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go about | present | a miserable King | a chariot | about property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | draw | participle | a chariot not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | croak | gerund | frogs | a marsh | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent frog=Theme | ||||
| 5 | word | King | nom word «communication 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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