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The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 85

“What am I to say to his Majesty, little fox?” he asked anxiously; “you know that I have never spoken to a king before.”

Who acts: fox, you, horse dealer · What happens: say, ask, know, not speak · 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, you, horse dealer), 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

punctobjauxnsubjmarkcasenmod:possoblpunctamodappospunctpunctnsubjccompadvmodpunctpunctnsubjparataxismarknsubjauxadvmodccompcasedetobladvmodpunctpunctroot“PUNCTWhatPRONamAUXIPRONtoPARTsayVERBtoADPhisPRONMajestyPROPN,PUNCTlittleADJfoxNOUN?PUNCT”PUNCThePRONaskedVERBanxiouslyADV;PUNCT“PUNCTyouPRONknowVERBthatSCONJIPRONhaveAUXneverADVspokenVERBtoADPaDETkingNOUNbeforeADV.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_6 saypunct
2WhatwhatPRONPronType=Int6 sayobj
3ambeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 sayaux
4IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs6 saynsubj
5totoPART_6 saymark
6saysayVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
7totoADP_9 Majestycase
8hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 Majestynmod:poss
9MajestyMajestyPROPNNumber=Sing6 sayobl
10,,PUNCT_12 foxpunct
11littlelittleADJDegree=Pos12 foxamod
12foxfoxNOUNNumber=Sing9 Majestyappos
13??PUNCT_12 foxpunct
14”"PUNCT_12 foxpunct
15hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 askednsubj
16askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 sayccomp
17anxiouslyanxiouslyADV_16 askedadvmod
18;;PUNCT_21 knowpunct
19“"PUNCT_21 knowpunct
20youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs21 knownsubj
21knowknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 sayparataxis
22thatthatSCONJ_26 spokenmark
23IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs26 spokennsubj
24havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin26 spokenaux
25neverneverADVPronType=Neg26 spokenadvmod
26spokenspeakVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part21 knowccomp
27totoADP_29 kingcase
28aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art29 kingdet
29kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing26 spokenobl
30beforebeforeADV_26 spokenadvmod
31..PUNCT_6 saypunct
32”"PUNCT_6 saypunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assert in a quotepresentfoxfox's Majestytree rules
2ask speech: askpastfoxanxiously propertyvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3know in a quotepresentyouvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4not speak speech: other in a quotepresent · perfecta horse dealer = dealerto a king; before propertyvn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to king=Co-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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