The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 1
‘I knew that they were really a King and Queen, whom the Fairies were punishing for their ignorance and idleness.
Who acts: I, they, Fairies · What happens: know, be, punish, ignore · To what, where: King
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, they, Fairies), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 King | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 King | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 King | cop |
| 7 | really | really | ADV | _ | 9 King | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Queen | cc |
| 11 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 King | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 punishing | punct |
| 13 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 punishing | obj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Fairies | det |
| 15 | Fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 punishing | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 punishing | aux |
| 17 | punishing | punish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 King | acl:relcl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 ignorance | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 ignorance | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ignorance | ignorance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 punishing | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 idleness | cc |
| 22 | idleness | idleness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ignorance | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | they | a King and Queen | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | punish | past · progressive | the Fairies | a King and Queen | for Fairies's ignorance and idleness | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent whom=Patient for ignorance=Theme | |||
| 4 | ignore | Fairies = fairy | nom ignorance «cognition 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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