The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 116
“My father is a king, but he has not got any sword so beautiful as that.
Who acts: father · What happens: be, not get · To what, where: king, sword
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 | _ | 6 king | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 king | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 king | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 got | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 got | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 got | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 got | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 got | advmod |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 king | acl:relcl |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 sword | det |
| 14 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 got | obj |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 beautiful | advmod |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sword | amod |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 that | case |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 beautiful | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 king | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | My father | a king | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not get in a quote | present · perfect | father | any sword | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sword=Stimulus |
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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