The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 74
“Did I not tell your Majesty that he was richer than you?” answered the fox reproachfully.
Who acts: fox, Piro · What happens: not tell, be, answer · To what, where: Majesty · 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 (fox, Piro), 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 tell | punct |
| 2 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 tell | advmod |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 answered | ccomp |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 7 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tell | obj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 richer | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 richer | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 richer | cop |
| 11 | richer | rich | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 tell | advcl |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 richer | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| 16 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fox | det |
| 18 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 answered | obj |
| 19 | reproachfully | reproachfully | ADV | _ | 16 answered | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tell speech: assert in a quote | past · do-support | the fox = fox | your Majesty | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent majesty=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | Piro | than you; rich property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: ask | past | the fox | reproachfully 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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