The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 60

At last the king said: “Even this trial does not satisfy me; but happily I know of a sure way to discover whether or not I have been deceived.”

Who acts: last king, trial · What happens: say, not satisfy, know, discover, deceive · To what, where: last king · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (last king, trial), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 king	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 satisfy	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 satisfy	punct
8	Even	even	ADV	_	10 trial	advmod
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 trial	det
10	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 satisfy	nsubj
11	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 satisfy	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 satisfy	advmod
13	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 satisfy	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 know	cc
17	happily	happily	ADV	_	19 know	advmod
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 know	nsubj
19	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 way	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 way	det
22	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 way	amod
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 know	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 discover	mark
25	discover	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 way	acl
26	whether	whether	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	32 deceived	mark
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 whether	fixed
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 whether	fixed
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 deceived	nsubj
30	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 deceived	aux
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 deceived	aux:pass
32	deceived	deceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 discover	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the last king			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not satisfy in a quote	present · do-support	this trial	the last king = king		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer
3	know in a quote	present	the last king = king		of a sure way; happily property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of way=Stimulus
4	discover in a quote	to-infinitive	the last king = king not said here			vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	deceive in a quote	present · perfect · passive		the last king = king		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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