The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 85
For the present take a seat there beside the Pacha of Medina,” replied the king.
Who acts: you · What happens: take, reply · To what, where: seat, king, Pacha
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 (you), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 present | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 present | det |
| 3 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obl |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 seat | det |
| 6 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 take | advmod |
| 8 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 10 Pacha | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Pacha | det |
| 10 | Pacha | Pacha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 replied | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Medina | case |
| 12 | Medina | Medina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Pacha | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Pacha | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Pacha | punct |
| 15 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 replied | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | a seat | there | for the present | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent seat=Theme for present=Beneficiary | ||
| 2 | reply speech: assert in a quote | past | you not said here | the king | the Pacha of Medina | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic |
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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