Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar., sentence 5
The king called the servant, and asked, "How much food have we in the house?"
Who acts: king, much food · What happens: call, ask, have · To what, where: servant, we, house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Alfred and the Beggar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, much food), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 king | acl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 servant | det |
| 5 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 asked | cc |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 11 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 food | amod |
| 13 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 have | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | conj |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 have | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 house | det |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 have | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | the king not said here | the servant | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | much food | we | the house | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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: «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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