The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 75
“Well, beg him to come here, that we may talk together,” said the king.
Who acts: we, king · What happens: beg, come, talk, say · To what, where: Piro · 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 (we, 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 | _ | 4 beg | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 beg | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 beg | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 come | mark |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 beg | xcomp |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 come | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 talk | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 talk | mark |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 talk | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 talk | aux |
| 13 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 beg | conj |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 13 talk | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 beg | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 beg | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request in a quote | infinitive | Piro | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | come not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | talk in a quote | may | we | together property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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