English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 12
The poor king was in a terrible case.
Who acts: poor king · What happens: be · To what, where: terrible case
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Nix Nought Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor 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 | 3 king | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 case | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 case | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 case | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 case | det |
| 7 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 case | amod |
| 8 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 case | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the poor king | a terrible case | 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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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