The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 167
All the emperors and kings were on their knees before her, and were kissing her foot.
Who acts: emperors · What happens: be, kiss · To what, where: knees, foot
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emperors), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 emperors | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 emperors | det |
| 3 | emperors | emperor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 knees | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 kings | cc |
| 5 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 emperors | conj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 knees | cop |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 knees | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 knees | nmod:poss |
| 9 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 knees | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 kissing | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 kissing | cc |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 kissing | aux |
| 15 | kissing | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 knees | conj |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 foot | nmod:poss |
| 17 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kissing | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 knees | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all emperors and kings | candles's knees | before wife | tree rules | |||
| 2 | kiss | past · progressive | all emperors and kings not said here | wife's foot | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Co-Agent |
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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