The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 50
When he came before the King, the King asked who had cooked the soup.
Who acts: King · What happens: come, ask, cook · To what, where: soup · 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 (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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | advcl |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 King | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 cooked | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 cooked | aux |
| 13 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 soup | det |
| 15 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cooked | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | King | before the King | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before king=Location | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the King | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | cook | past · perfect · passive | the soup | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary soup=Product |
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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