The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 87
The king says that, instead of the coat, I must deliver you up to him.”
Who acts: king, I · What happens: say, deliver up · To what, where: that, you, king · 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, I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 says | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 coat | punct |
| 6 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 9 coat | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 instead | fixed |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 coat | det |
| 9 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 deliver | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 deliver | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 deliver | aux |
| 13 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 says | ccomp |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 deliver | obj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 deliver | compound:prt |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 deliver | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 deliver | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 deliver | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the king | that | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | deliver up | must | I | you | king | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to he=Destination |
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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