The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 5
For a long time the King was not to be comforted, and he did not even think of taking a second wife.
Who acts: King · What happens: not comfort, not think, take · To what, where: King, second wife
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 (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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 comforted | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 comforted | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 comforted | aux:pass |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 comforted | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 comforted | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 comforted | aux:pass |
| 11 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 think | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 think | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 think | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 think | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 think | advmod |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 think | advmod |
| 18 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 comforted | conj |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 taking | mark |
| 20 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 think | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 wife | det |
| 22 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 wife | amod |
| 23 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 taking | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 comforted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not comfort | past · passive | the King | time | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not think speech: other | past · do-support | King | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | take | gerund | King not said here | a second wife | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination |
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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