The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 35
“I am the king of the wood-pigeons, whose life you spared when you were hungry.
Who acts: wood pigeon, life, you · What happens: be, spare · To what, where: king
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wood pigeon, life, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 king | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 king | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 king | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 pigeons | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pigeons | det |
| 8 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pigeons | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 wood | punct |
| 10 | pigeons | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 king | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spared | punct |
| 12 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 13 life | nmod:poss |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spared | nsubj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 spared | nsubj |
| 15 | spared | spare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 king | conj |
| 16 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 19 hungry | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 hungry | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 hungry | cop |
| 19 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 spared | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 king | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the wood pigeon = pigeon | the king | of the wood pigeons | tree rules | |||
| 2 | spare in a quote | past | life | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | you | hungry property | 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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