The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 50
The King had just seated himself at the wedding-feast with all his Court, when the dog appeared and licked the Princess’s hand in an appealing manner.
Who acts: King, dog · What happens: seat, appear, lick, appeal · To what, where: King, wedding feast, hand, appealing manner
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, dog), 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 | 5 seated | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seated | aux |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 seated | advmod |
| 5 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 seated | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 feast | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 feast | det |
| 9 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 feast | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 wedding | punct |
| 11 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seated | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 Court | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 Court | det:predet |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 Court | nmod:poss |
| 15 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 feast | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 appeared | punct |
| 17 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 20 appeared | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dog | det |
| 19 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 appeared | nsubj |
| 20 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 Court | acl:relcl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 licked | cc |
| 22 | licked | lick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 appeared | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Princess | det |
| 24 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 hand | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 Princess | case |
| 26 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 licked | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 manner | case |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 manner | det |
| 29 | appealing | appeal | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 manner | amod |
| 30 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 licked | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past · perfect | the King | King | the wedding feast with King's Court | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value | |||
| 2 | appear | past | the dog | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lick | past | the dog not said here | the Princess's hand | a appealing manner | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent hand=Source | |||
| 4 | appeal | gerund | vn appeal-31.4-2 «NP V»: agent=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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