The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 105
“You have found it already,” answered the king, “for, as I said, neither I nor my family can die till I have levelled this great mountain; and that will take full eight hundred years longer.
Who acts: You, king, that · What happens: find, answer, say, die, levell, take · To what, where: Land, great mountain, full · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, king, that), 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 found | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 found | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | aux |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 answered | advcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 found | obj |
| 6 | already | already | ADV | _ | 4 found | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 said | mark |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 said | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 answered | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 die | punct |
| 20 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 26 die | cc:preconj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 die | nsubj |
| 22 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 24 family | cc |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 family | nmod:poss |
| 24 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 I | conj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 die | aux |
| 26 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | conj |
| 27 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 30 levelled | mark |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 levelled | nsubj |
| 29 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 levelled | aux |
| 30 | levelled | levell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 die | ccomp |
| 31 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 mountain | det |
| 32 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 mountain | amod |
| 33 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 levelled | obj |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 take | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 take | cc |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 38 take | nsubj |
| 37 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 take | aux |
| 38 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 answered | parataxis |
| 39 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 take | obj |
| 40 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 hundred | compound |
| 41 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 42 years | nummod |
| 42 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 longer | obl:unmarked |
| 43 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 38 take | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find in a quote | present · perfect | You | Land | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the king | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the king = king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | die in a quote | can | the king = king | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | levell in a quote | present · perfect | the king = king | this great mountain | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | take in a quote | future | that | full | long property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent full=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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