The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 86
“Ah, dear king,” replied the young man, “your offer is very tempting!
Who acts: dear king, offer, your · What happens: reply, be, offer · To what, where: young man, tempting · 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 (dear king, offer, your), 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 king | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 dear | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 king | amod |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 king | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 king | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tempting | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 tempting | punct |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 offer | nmod:poss |
| 15 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tempting | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 tempting | cop |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 tempting | advmod |
| 18 | tempting | tempting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 man | conj |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: express | past | dear king | the young man and tempting | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | your offer | tempting | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | offer in a quote | your | nom offer «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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