The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 21
Now, the King had a most remarkable Lion, for it knew every hidden or secret thing.
Who acts: King, Lion · What happens: have, know · To what, where: remarkable Lion, hidden thing
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Lion), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 had | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Lion | det |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 remarkable | advmod |
| 8 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Lion | amod |
| 9 | Lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 knew | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 knew | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 knew | nsubj |
| 13 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | parataxis |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 thing | det |
| 15 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 thing | amod |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 secret | cc |
| 17 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hidden | conj |
| 18 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 knew | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the King | a remarkable Lion | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Patient | |||
| 2 | know | past | Lion | every hidden thing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
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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