The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 44
And the King answered: “Because of the luck you have brought me, in freeing my palace from the plague which has tormented me for many years, I will give you the choice of two things.
Who acts: King, you · What happens: answer, bring, free, torment, give · To what, where: King, palace, plague, choice, you · 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 (King, you), 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 | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 brought | punct |
| 7 | Because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 10 luck | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Because | fixed |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 luck | det |
| 10 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brought | obl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 brought | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 brought | aux |
| 13 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 answered | parataxis |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 brought | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 freeing | punct |
| 16 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 17 freeing | mark |
| 17 | freeing | free | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 brought | advcl |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 palace | nmod:poss |
| 19 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 freeing | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 plague | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 plague | det |
| 22 | plague | plague | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 freeing | obl |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 tormented | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 tormented | aux |
| 25 | tormented | torment | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 plague | acl:relcl |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 tormented | obj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 years | case |
| 28 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 years | amod |
| 29 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 tormented | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 give | punct |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 give | nsubj |
| 32 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 give | aux |
| 33 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 brought | conj |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 give | iobj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 choice | det |
| 36 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 give | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 things | case |
| 38 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 things | nummod |
| 39 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 choice | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the King | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | present · perfect | you | the King = king | because the luck | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | |||
| 3 | free in a quote | gerund | you not said here | my palace | the plague | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer palace=Source | |||
| 4 | torment in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the plague | year | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer i=Result | ||||
| 5 | give in a quote | future | the King = king | the choice of two things | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient choice=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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