The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 114
Suddenly the king remembered that he had not questioned the seventh Simon, so he turned to him and said: “Why are you silent?
Who acts: king, you · What happens: remember, not question, turn, say, be · To what, where: seventh Simon, Simon · 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 (king, you), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 remembered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remembered | nsubj |
| 4 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 questioned | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 questioned | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 questioned | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 questioned | advmod |
| 9 | questioned | question | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 remembered | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Simon | det |
| 11 | seventh | seventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Simon | amod |
| 12 | Simon | Simon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 questioned | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 turned | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 turned | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 turned | nsubj |
| 16 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 remembered | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 turned | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 remembered | conj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 silent | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 silent | punct |
| 23 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 silent | advmod |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 silent | cop |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 silent | nsubj |
| 26 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 said | ccomp |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | the king | suddenly property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not question speech: other | past · perfect | king | the seventh Simon | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent simon=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | king | Simon | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result | ||||
| 4 | say speech: ask | past | the king not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | you | silent 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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