More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 128
"Take care," cried one, who seemed to be the king, "let no bone be broken."
What happens: take, cry, seem, be, let, break · To what, where: care, one, king, bone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 cried | parataxis |
| 3 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 cried | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seemed | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 seemed | nsubj |
| 10 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cried | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 king | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 king | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seemed | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 seemed | ccomp |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 bone | det |
| 19 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 broken | aux:pass |
| 21 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 let | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | infinitive | care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | one | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | seem | past | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | the king | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | let in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | break in a quote | infinitive · passive | no bone | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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