Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Kingdoms., sentence 35
"I will ask you only one more question," said the king, "and it is an easy one."
Who acts: king, question · What happens: ask, say, be · To what, where: one more question, you, easy one · 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 (king, 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 | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 ask | aux |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 ask | iobj |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 one | advmod |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 question | nummod |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 question | amod |
| 9 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ask | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ask | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 one | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 one | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 one | cop |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 one | det |
| 21 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 one | amod |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ask | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask in a quote | future | the king = king | one more question | you | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | question | a easy one | tree rules |
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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