The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 53
This he knew must be the King’s palace, and he determined to hop up to the front gate and wait there until the King came out.
Who acts: This, Medio, King · What happens: know, be, determine, hop up, wait, come out · To what, where: palace, front gate
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Medio, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 palace | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 palace | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 palace | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 King | case |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 determined | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 determined | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 determined | nsubj |
| 13 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knew | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 hop | mark |
| 15 | hop | hop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 determined | xcomp |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 hop | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 gate | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 gate | det |
| 19 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 gate | amod |
| 20 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hop | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 wait | cc |
| 22 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 hop | conj |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 wait | advmod |
| 24 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 27 came | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 King | det |
| 26 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 came | nsubj |
| 27 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 wait | advcl |
| 28 | out | out | ADV | _ | 27 came | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | This | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | must | the King's palace | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | determine | past | Medio | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | hop up | to-infinitive | Medio not said here | the front gate | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to gate=Destination | ||||
| 5 | wait | infinitive | Medio not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | come out | past | the King | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
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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