Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the Three Questions., sentence 22

"Well, then," said King John, "as I sit here with my crown of gold on my head, you must tell me to within a day just how long I shall live.

Who acts: John, you, my · What happens: say, sit, tell, live, crown · To what, where: head, John, gold · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, I. the Three Questions.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, you, my), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 said	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 then	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 then	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 John	nmod:desc
9	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sit	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 sit	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 sit	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 sit	nsubj
14	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
15	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 sit	advmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 crown	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 crown	nmod:poss
18	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sit	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 gold	case
20	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 crown	nmod
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 head	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 head	nmod:poss
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sit	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 tell	punct
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 tell	nsubj
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 tell	aux
27	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	conj
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 tell	iobj
29	to	to	ADP	_	32 day	case
30	within	within	ADP	_	32 day	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 day	det
32	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tell	obl
33	just	just	ADV	_	38 live	advmod
34	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	35 long	advmod
35	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 live	advmod
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 live	nsubj
37	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 live	aux
38	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 tell	ccomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	John King				then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sit in a quote	present	John King = john			my head; here		with my crown of gold	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on head=Location
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	must	you		John King = john		day		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
4	live in a quote	shall	John King = john					long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	crown in a quote		my	gold					nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=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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