The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 69
“Someone has told the king that I have prophesied that a child shall be born this night in the palace, who can speak all the languages in the world and play every musical instrument.
Who acts: king, palace · What happens: tell, prophesy, bear, speak, play · To what, where: Someone, king, child, palace, languages, 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 (king, palace), 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 | _ | 4 told | punct |
| 2 | Someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 told | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | aux |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 prophesied | obj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 prophesied | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 prophesied | aux |
| 10 | prophesied | prophesy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 king | acl:relcl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 born | mark |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 child | det |
| 13 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 born | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 born | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 born | aux:pass |
| 16 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 prophesied | advcl |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 night | det |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 born | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 palace | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 palace | det |
| 21 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 born | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 speak | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 speak | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 speak | aux |
| 25 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 palace | acl:relcl |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 languages | det:predet |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 languages | det |
| 28 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 speak | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 world | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 world | det |
| 31 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 languages | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 play | cc |
| 33 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 speak | conj |
| 34 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 instrument | det |
| 35 | musical | musical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 instrument | amod |
| 36 | instrument | instrument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 play | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Someone | the king | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient king=Topic | ||||
| 2 | prophesy in a quote | present · perfect | king | the king | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bear in a quote | shall · passive | a child | the palace | night | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 4 | speak speech: other in a quote | can | the palace | all languages | the world | tree rules | |||
| 5 | play in a quote | present | the palace not said here | every musical instrument | 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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