The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 105
“That sounds very useful,” said the king.
Who acts: That, king · What happens: sound, say · 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), 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 | _ | 3 sounds | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 sounds | nsubj |
| 3 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 useful | advmod |
| 5 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sounds | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sounds | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sounds | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound in a quote | present | That | useful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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