Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 42
And the king didn't know whether he was glad or sorry, and all the blood in the princess's heart run into her cheeks.
Who acts: king, blood · What happens: not know, be, run · To what, where: cheeks · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, blood), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 know | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 know | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 know | advmod |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 10 glad | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 glad | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 glad | cop |
| 10 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 know | ccomp |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 sorry | cc |
| 12 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 glad | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 run | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 run | cc |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 blood | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 blood | det |
| 17 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 run | nsubj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 heart | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 princess | det |
| 20 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 heart | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 princess | case |
| 22 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 blood | nmod |
| 23 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 glad | parataxis |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 cheeks | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 26 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 run | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | the king | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | King | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | King not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | run | present | all blood in the princess's heart | into princess's cheeks result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into cheek=Result |
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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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