The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 73
“Is he really so rich that he can do without a dowry?” asked the king.
Who acts: Piro, king · What happens: be, do, ask · 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 (Piro, 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 | _ | 6 rich | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 rich | cop |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 rich | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 rich | advmod |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 rich | advmod |
| 6 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 do | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | aux |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 rich | advcl |
| 11 | without | without | ADP | _ | 13 dowry | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 dowry | det |
| 13 | dowry | dowry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 do | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 rich | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 rich | punct |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asked | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Piro | rich property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | can | Piro | without a dowry | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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