The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 66
At these words the young man looked so sorrowful that the courtiers said to the king: “He is very young to die.
Who acts: young man, courtiers, man · What happens: look, say, be, die · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, courtiers, man), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 looked | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looked | nsubj |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 sorrowful | advmod |
| 9 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 looked | xcomp |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 said | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 courtiers | det |
| 12 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sorrowful | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 king | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 young | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 young | punct |
| 19 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 young | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 young | cop |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 young | advmod |
| 22 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 die | mark |
| 24 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 young | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the young man | at this words; sorrowful property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at word=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the courtiers | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | man | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | die in a quote | to-infinitive | man not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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