Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Kingdoms., sentence 24
You are quite right," he said; "and you shall have the orange for your prize."
Who acts: You, king · What happens: be, say, have · To what, where: orange · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Kingdoms.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 right | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | cop |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 right | advmod |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | parataxis |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 have | cc |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 have | aux |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 right | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 orange | det |
| 16 | orange | orange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 have | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 prize | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 prize | nmod:poss |
| 19 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 have | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | shall | you | the orange | for your prize | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent orange=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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