More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 55
"Well, then, question first--where is the centre of the round earth?" said the King.
Who acts: question · What happens: be, say · To what, where: centre · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (question), 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 | _ | 6 question | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 question | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 question | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 6 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | nsubj |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 question | advmod |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 centre | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 centre | advmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 centre | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 centre | det |
| 12 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 question | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 earth | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 earth | det |
| 15 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 earth | amod |
| 16 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 centre | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 centre | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 centre | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 King | det |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 said | nsubj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the centre | of the round earth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | question | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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