The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 101
“That is very clever of you,” answered the king; “and what does Simon the fifth do?”
Who acts: That, king, fifth · What happens: be, answer, do · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, king, fifth), 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 | _ | 5 clever | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 clever | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 clever | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 clever | advmod |
| 5 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 do | csubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 clever | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 clever | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 clever | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 clever | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 does | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 does | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 does | cc |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 does | nsubj |
| 17 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | aux |
| 18 | Simon | Simon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 does | obj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fifth | det |
| 20 | fifth | fifth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 do | nsubj |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 21 do | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | That | of you; clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: ask | past | the king | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present · do-support | the fifth | vn act-114-1 «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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