More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 57
"By St. Botolph," said the King, "a merry answer and a shrewd; so to question the second.
Who acts: King · What happens: say, question · 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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 Botolph | case |
| 3 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Botolph | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Botolph | Botolph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Botolph | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Botolph | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 answer | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 answer | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 answer | det |
| 13 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 answer | amod |
| 14 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 King | acl:relcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 shrewd | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 shrewd | det |
| 17 | shrewd | shrewd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 answer | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 question | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 question | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 question | mark |
| 21 | question | question | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 second | det |
| 23 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 question | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the King | by Botolph St. | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | question speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | the King not said here | second | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: 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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