The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 42
But the queen claimed his promise, and as he was a man of his word the king gave in at last.
Who acts: queen, tailor, king · What happens: claim, be, give in, promise, word · To what, where: promise, last
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, tailor, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 claimed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 claimed | nsubj |
| 4 | claimed | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 promise | nmod:poss |
| 6 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 claimed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gave | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gave | cc |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 man | case |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 man | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 man | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gave | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 word | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 word | nmod:poss |
| 16 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 man | nmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gave | nsubj |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 claimed | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 gave | compound:prt |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 last | case |
| 22 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 gave | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 claimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | claim speech: other | past | the queen | tailor's promise | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent promise=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | past | tailor | as a man; of tailor's word | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give in | past | the king | last | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | promise | tailor | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | word | tailor | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/35/42/