The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 24
“He is as well as ever,” answered the king’s son.
Who acts: man, son · What happens: be, answer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, son), 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 | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 well | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 well | cop |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 well | advmod |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 answered | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 ever | case |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 well | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 well | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 well | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 king | case |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | man | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the king's son | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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