The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 43
“Your Majesty,” they said to the king, one day, as he was standing on the steps of the palace, “that fellow has been boasting again, that if he had the care of your treasures not so much as a gold pin should ever be lost.
Who acts: soldiers, king, fellow, treasures, your · What happens: say, stand, boast, have, lose, step · To what, where: king, care, gold pin, palace · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (soldiers, king, fellow, treasures), 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 | _ | 3 Majesty | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Majesty | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Majesty | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 king | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 day | punct |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 day | nummod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 king | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 standing | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 standing | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 standing | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 standing | aux |
| 18 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 steps | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 steps | det |
| 21 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 standing | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 palace | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 palace | det |
| 24 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 steps | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 boasting | punct |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 boasting | punct |
| 27 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 fellow | det |
| 28 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 boasting | nsubj |
| 29 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 boasting | aux |
| 30 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 boasting | aux |
| 31 | boasting | boast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 standing | advcl |
| 32 | again | again | ADV | _ | 31 boasting | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 had | punct |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 had | mark |
| 35 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 37 had | mark |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 had | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 boasting | conj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 care | det |
| 39 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 had | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 treasures | case |
| 41 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 treasures | nmod:poss |
| 42 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 care | nmod |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 much | advmod |
| 44 | so | so | ADV | _ | 45 much | advmod |
| 45 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 had | obj |
| 46 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 53 lost | mark |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 pin | det |
| 48 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 pin | compound |
| 49 | pin | pin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 50 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 53 lost | aux |
| 51 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 53 lost | advmod |
| 52 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 53 lost | aux:pass |
| 53 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 much | advcl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | soldiers = soldier | the king and one day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | stand | past · progressive | king | on the steps of the palace | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on step=Location | ||||
| 3 | boast speech: other in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | that fellow | again | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | king | the care of your treasures | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | lose in a quote | should · passive | a gold pin | ever | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | step | the palace | nom step «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | care in a quote | your treasures | nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 8 | treasure in a quote | your | nom treasure «possession 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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