The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 90

“The Count speaks very little,” the king said at last to the fox, and the fox answered: “He has so much to think about in the management of his property that he cannot afford to talk like ordinary people.”

Who acts: Count, king, fox · What happens: speak, say, answer, have, think, not afford · To what, where: little, fox, last, much, property · 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 (Count, king, fox), 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 speaks	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Count	det
3	Count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 speaks	nsubj
4	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 little	advmod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 speaks	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 speaks	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 speaks	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 speaks	parataxis
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 last	case
13	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 fox	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fox	det
16	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 answered	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 answered	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fox	det
20	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 answered	nsubj
21	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	parataxis
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 has	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 has	punct
24	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 has	nsubj
25	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 answered	ccomp
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 much	advmod
27	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 has	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 think	mark
29	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 much	acl
30	about	about	ADP	_	33 management	case
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 management	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 management	det
33	management	management	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 think	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 property	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 property	nmod:poss
36	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 management	nmod
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 afford	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 afford	nsubj
39	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 afford	aux
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 afford	advmod
41	afford	afford	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 think	advcl
42	to	to	PART	_	43 talk	mark
43	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 afford	xcomp
44	like	like	ADP	_	46 people	case
45	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 people	amod
46	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 talk	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
48	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 speaks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other in a quote	present	the Count	little				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the king		the fox	last		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to fox=Recipient
3	answer speech: assert	past	the fox					tree rules
4	have in a quote	present	king	much				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
5	think speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive					about the management of king's property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about management=Topic
6	not afford in a quote	can	fox					tree rules
7	talk in a quote	to-infinitive	fox not said here				like ordinary people	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	manage in a quote			king's property				nom management «act transitive»: of=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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