The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 53
‘A King, who is a friend of mine, was unlucky enough to offend you--’
Who acts: King · What happens: be, offend · To what, where: friend, you
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 unlucky | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 unlucky | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 friend | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 friend | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 friend | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 friend | det |
| 8 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 King | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 mine | case |
| 10 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 friend | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 King | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 unlucky | cop |
| 13 | unlucky | unlucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 13 unlucky | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 offend | mark |
| 16 | offend | offend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 unlucky | advcl |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 offend | obj |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 unlucky | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 unlucky | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a King | a friend | of mine | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | a King | enough, unlucky property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | offend | to-infinitive | a King not said here | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
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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