The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 64
“Alas! your Majesty,” answered the prince, “it is not love or marriage that makes me so gloomy; but the thought, which haunts me day and night, that all men, even kings, must die.
Who acts: Majesty, embassy, love, thought, men · What happens: answer, not be, make, haunt, die · To what, where: prince, love, Majesty · 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 (Majesty, embassy, love, thought), 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 Majesty | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 5 Majesty | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Majesty | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Majesty | 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 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 love | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 love | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 love | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 love | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 love | advmod |
| 16 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 prince | appos |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 marriage | cc |
| 18 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 love | conj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 makes | nsubj |
| 20 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 love | acl:relcl |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 makes | obj |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 gloomy | advmod |
| 23 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 makes | xcomp |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 thought | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 thought | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 thought | det |
| 27 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 haunts | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 haunts | nsubj |
| 30 | haunts | haunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 thought | acl:relcl |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 haunts | obj |
| 32 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 haunts | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 night | cc |
| 34 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 day | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 die | punct |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 die | mark |
| 37 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 men | det |
| 38 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 die | nsubj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 kings | punct |
| 40 | even | even | ADV | _ | 41 kings | advmod |
| 41 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 men | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 men | punct |
| 43 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 die | aux |
| 44 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 haunts | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | your Majesty | the prince | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | present | embassy | love or marriage | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make in a quote | present | love or marriage | your Majesty = majesty | gloomy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product | |||
| 4 | haunt in a quote | present | the thought | your Majesty = majesty | day | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | die in a quote | must | all men and kings | 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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