The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 45
But the king replied, “Oh, do not trouble; we are not thirsty.”
Who acts: king, we · What happens: reply, do, not be · To what, where: trouble · 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 (king, we), 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 replied | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 7 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 do | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Oh | punct |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 replied | ccomp |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 trouble | advmod |
| 11 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 do | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 thirsty | punct |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 thirsty | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 thirsty | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 thirsty | advmod |
| 16 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 replied | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 thirsty | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | infinitive | trouble | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | present | we | thirsty property | tree rules |
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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