The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 17
“That is your affair,” answered the King, who, when he took anything into his head, would listen to nothing.
Who acts: That, affair, King · What happens: be, answer, take, listen · To what, where: affair, anything, head · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, affair, 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 | _ | 5 affair | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 affair | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 affair | cop |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 affair | nmod:poss |
| 5 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 affair | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 affair | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 took | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 took | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 took | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | nsubj |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | ccomp |
| 17 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 took | obj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 head | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 head | nmod:poss |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 listen | punct |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 listen | aux |
| 23 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 took | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 nothing | case |
| 25 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 23 listen | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | your affair | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | your affair | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take | past | the King | anything | king's head | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent anything=Theme into head=Destination | |||
| 4 | listen | would | to nothing | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to nothing=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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