The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 60
This time she met the king, who said to her, “Ah, here you are again, cunning one!
Who acts: Maria, king · What happens: meet, say, be · To what, where: king, Maria · 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 (Maria, king), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 met | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 met | nsubj |
| 4 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 met | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 king | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 here | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 here | punct |
| 14 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 16 here | discourse |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Ah | punct |
| 16 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 again | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 again | cop |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 here | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 one | punct |
| 21 | cunning | cunning | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 one | amod |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 here | conj |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | Maria | the king | time | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the king | Maria | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Maria | again 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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