The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 36
And he thought to himself: “This fellow must really be a magician.”
Who acts: king, fellow · What happens: think, be · To what, where: king, magician · 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 (king, fellow), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 thought | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 himself | case |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 thought | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 magician | punct |
| 8 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 fellow | det |
| 9 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 magician | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 magician | aux |
| 11 | really | really | ADV | _ | 14 magician | advmod |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 magician | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 magician | det |
| 14 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 magician | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 magician | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | king | king | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | must | this fellow | a magician | 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: «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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