The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 104
Now Paridamie had for a long time been very friendly with King Bardondon, who was a most accomplished Prince, and whose court was the model of what a court should be.
Who acts: Paridamie, King, court · What happens: have, be, accomplish · To what, where: accomplished Prince, model
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paridamie, King, court), 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 | 3 had | advmod |
| 2 | Paridamie | Paridamie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 friendly | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 friendly | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 friendly | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 friendly | cop |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 friendly | advmod |
| 10 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 had | ccomp |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 King | case |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 friendly | obl |
| 13 | Bardondon | Bardondon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 King | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Prince | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 Prince | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 Prince | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 Prince | det |
| 18 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 19 accomplished | advmod |
| 19 | accomplished | accomplish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 Prince | amod |
| 20 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 King | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 model | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 model | cc |
| 23 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 24 court | nmod:poss |
| 24 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 model | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 model | cop |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 model | det |
| 27 | model | model | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 what | case |
| 29 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 model | nmod |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 court | det |
| 31 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 be | nsubj |
| 32 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 be | aux |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 what | cop |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Paridamie | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | participle | Paridamie not said here | time | with King and a accomplished Prince; friendly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | accomplish | participle | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | past | King and a accomplished Prince | a accomplished Prince | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | the model's court | the model | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | infinitive | tree rules |
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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