Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Three Answers., sentence 47
"Very well, then," said the king, "I will give you something else to pay you for this merry joke.
Who acts: king · What happens: say, give, pay · To what, where: something, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Three Answers.. 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 | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 said | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 then | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 give | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 give | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 give | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 give | aux |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 give | iobj |
| 17 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 give | obj |
| 18 | else | else | ADV | _ | 17 something | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 pay | mark |
| 20 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 give | advcl |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 pay | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 joke | case |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 joke | det |
| 24 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 joke | amod |
| 25 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pay | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the king | then | well property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | give in a quote | future | the king = king | something | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Theme | |||
| 3 | pay in a quote | to-infinitive | the king = king not said here | you | for this merry joke | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Asset for joke=Theme |
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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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