The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 61
“Gracious Majesty,” said they, “the youth whom you have made keeper of your jewels has declared to us that a child shall be born in the palace this night, which will be able to speak every language in the world and to play every instrument of music.
Who acts: Gracious Majesty, you, night · What happens: say, make, declare, bear, be, speak · To what, where: youth, us, child, palace, language, world · 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 (Gracious Majesty, you, night), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Majesty | amod |
| 3 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Majesty | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Majesty | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 declared | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 declared | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 youth | det |
| 11 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 declared | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 made | obl |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 made | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 made | aux |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 youth | acl:relcl |
| 16 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | xcomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 jewels | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 jewels | nmod:poss |
| 19 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 keeper | nmod |
| 20 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 declared | aux |
| 21 | declared | declare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 us | case |
| 23 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 declared | obl |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 born | mark |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 child | det |
| 26 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 born | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 born | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 born | aux:pass |
| 29 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 declared | advcl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 palace | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 palace | det |
| 32 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 born | obl |
| 33 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 night | det |
| 34 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 born | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 able | punct |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 able | nsubj |
| 37 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 able | aux |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 able | cop |
| 39 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 night | conj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 speak | mark |
| 41 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 able | xcomp |
| 42 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 43 language | det |
| 43 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 speak | obj |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 world | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 world | det |
| 46 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 language | nmod |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 play | cc |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 play | mark |
| 49 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 speak | conj |
| 50 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 51 instrument | det |
| 51 | instrument | instrument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 play | obj |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 music | case |
| 53 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 instrument | nmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Gracious Majesty | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | make in a quote | present · perfect | you | the youth | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | declare speech: other in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the youth | us | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to we=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | bear in a quote | shall · passive | a child | the palace | night | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 5 | is in a quote | future | this night | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | speak speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | this night not said here | every language | the world | tree rules | |||
| 7 | play in a quote | to-infinitive | this night not said here | every instrument of music | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instrument=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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