The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 129
“Count Piro’s,” answered the swineherd, who did not know the king; and again the king felt he was lucky to have such a rich son-in-law.
Who acts: swineherd, king · What happens: count, answer, not know, feel, be, have · To what, where: Piro, king, rich son, law · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swineherd, king), 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 | _ | 2 Count | punct |
| 2 | Count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 answered | ccomp |
| 3 | Piro | Piro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Count | obj |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Piro | case |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Count | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Count | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 swineherd | det |
| 9 | swineherd | swineherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 know | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 know | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 know | advmod |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 swineherd | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 know | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 felt | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 felt | cc |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 felt | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 felt | nsubj |
| 22 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 answered | conj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 lucky | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 lucky | cop |
| 25 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 felt | xcomp |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 have | mark |
| 27 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 lucky | xcomp |
| 28 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 son | det:predet |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 son | det |
| 30 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 son | amod |
| 31 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 have | obj |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 law | punct |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 law | case |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 in | punct |
| 35 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 son | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count in a quote | infinitive | Piro | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piro=Theme | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the swineherd | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | the swineherd | the king | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | feel | past | the king | again | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is | past | king | lucky property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | have | to-infinitive | king not said here | such rich son | law | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
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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