The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 46
When the dance was ended, the King had his soup brought to him and ate it, and it was so good that he thought he had never tasted such soup in his life.
Who acts: dance, King, soup · What happens: be, have, bring, eat, think, not taste · To what, where: King, soup, such soup, life · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dance, King, soup), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 ended | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dance | det |
| 3 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ended | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ended | cop |
| 5 | ended | ended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 had | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ended | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 soup | nmod:poss |
| 11 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brought | nsubj |
| 12 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 had | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 brought | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ate | cc |
| 16 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 brought | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ate | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 good | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 good | cc |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 good | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 good | cop |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 good | advmod |
| 23 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ate | parataxis |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 thought | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 thought | nsubj |
| 26 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 good | advcl |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 tasted | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 tasted | aux |
| 29 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 30 tasted | advmod |
| 30 | tasted | taste | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 thought | ccomp |
| 31 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 soup | amod |
| 32 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tasted | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 life | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 life | nmod:poss |
| 35 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tasted | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the dance | ended property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the King | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bring | past | King's soup | King | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to he=Destination | ||||
| 4 | eat | past | King's soup not said here | soup | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | past | soup | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other | past | King | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | not taste | past · perfect | King | such soup | King's life | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent soup=Theme in life=Location |
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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