The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 61
The King was very much puzzled when he heard this.
Who acts: King · What happens: puzzle, hear · To what, where: King, this
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 puzzled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 puzzled | aux:pass |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 puzzled | advmod |
| 6 | puzzled | puzzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 heard | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 puzzled | advcl |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 heard | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 puzzled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | puzzle | past · passive | the King | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | King | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=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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