The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 93
“Well, give him a hundred pieces of gold,” said the Sultan, turning to the Grand Vizir.
Who acts: Sultan · What happens: give, say, turn · To what, where: hundred pieces, Sultan · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan), 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 give | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 give | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hundred | det |
| 7 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 pieces | nummod |
| 8 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 give | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 gold | case |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pieces | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Sultan | det |
| 15 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 turning | punct |
| 17 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Vizir | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Vizir | det |
| 20 | Grand | Grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Vizir | amod |
| 21 | Vizir | Vizir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 turning | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | infinitive | hundred pieces of gold | Sultan | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient piece=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Sultan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | turn | gerund | the Sultan not said here | to the Grand Vizir result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to vizir=Result |
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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