The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 8
“It is the capital city of the Blue Kingdom,” replied the man, “but the king himself is dead, and his daughter is now the ruler.”
Who acts: friend, capital city, king, daughter · What happens: be, reply · To what, where: capital city, man, ruler · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, capital city, king, daughter), 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 | _ | 6 city | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 city | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 city | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 5 | capital | capital | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 city | amod |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Kingdom | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Kingdom | det |
| 9 | Blue | Blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Kingdom | amod |
| 10 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 city | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 city | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 city | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dead | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 dead | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 dead | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 king | det |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dead | nsubj |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 20 king | nmod:unmarked |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 dead | cop |
| 23 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | acl:relcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 ruler | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 ruler | cc |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 27 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 ruler | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 ruler | cop |
| 29 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 ruler | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 ruler | det |
| 31 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | parataxis |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 ruler | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 ruler | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | friend | the capital city | of the Blue Kingdom | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the capital city | the man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the king city | the man not said here | dead property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | city's daughter | the ruler | now | tree rules |
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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