The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 66
“I know your errand, King Sached,” she said; “it is an honest one, and I will give you my help.
Who acts: horse, errand, my · What happens: know, say, be, give, help · To what, where: errand, honest one, help, you · 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 (horse, errand, my), 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 | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 errand | nmod:poss |
| 5 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 know | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 King | punct |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 errand | appos |
| 8 | Sached | Sached | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 King | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 one | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 one | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 one | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 one | cop |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 one | det |
| 18 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 one | amod |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 give | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 give | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 give | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 give | aux |
| 24 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | conj |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 give | iobj |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 help | nmod:poss |
| 27 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 give | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | horse | your errand | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer errand=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | horse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | errand | a honest one | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give in a quote | future | horse | my help | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient help=Theme | |||
| 5 | help in a quote | my | nom help «act 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.
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