The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 57
“I am the king of the wild ducks, whose life you spared, and now it is my turn to save yours.”
Who acts: bird, life, ring · What happens: be, spare, save · To what, where: king, turn, yours
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 (bird, life, ring), 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 | _ | 9 ducks | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ducks | det |
| 8 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ducks | compound |
| 9 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 king | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 spared | punct |
| 11 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 12 life | nmod:poss |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spared | nsubj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 spared | nsubj |
| 14 | spared | spare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 king | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 turn | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 turn | cc |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 turn | advmod |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 turn | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 turn | cop |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 turn | nmod:poss |
| 21 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spared | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 save | mark |
| 23 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 turn | acl |
| 24 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 save | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 king | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | 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 bird = bird | the king | of the wild ducks | tree rules | |||
| 2 | spare in a quote | past | life | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | ring | my turn | now | tree rules | |||
| 4 | save in a quote | to-infinitive | life not said here | yours | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent your=Theme |
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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