The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 94
“You do not spare me,” answered the king; “but what you say is just, and your counsel is good.
Who acts: You, king, counsel · What happens: not spare, answer, say, be · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, king, counsel), 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 spare | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 spare | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 spare | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 spare | advmod |
| 5 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 answered | ccomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 spare | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 spare | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 spare | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 good | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 good | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 what | cc |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 good | obl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 say | nsubj |
| 17 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 what | acl:relcl |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 good | cop |
| 19 | just | just | ADV | _ | 25 good | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 good | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 good | cc |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 counsel | nmod:poss |
| 23 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 good | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 good | cop |
| 25 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 answered | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not spare in a quote | present · do-support | You | the king = king | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Asset | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the king | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | your counsel | good 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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