The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 71
“Who will carry these flowers to the king, who lies sick of love?”
Who acts: king · What happens: carry, lie · To what, where: flowers, king
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), 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 | _ | 4 carry | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 carry | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 carry | aux |
| 4 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 flowers | det |
| 6 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carry | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 king | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carry | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lies | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 lies | nsubj |
| 12 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 king | acl:relcl |
| 13 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lies | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 love | case |
| 15 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sick | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 carry | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry in a quote | future | this flowers | the king | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flower=Theme to king=Destination | ||||
| 2 | lie in a quote | present | the king | sick property | vn assuming_position-50 «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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