The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 119

“Come, come,” cried the king; “I will have no excuses, what is this trade?”

Who acts: king, excuses · What happens: come, cry, have, be · To what, where: excuses, trade · 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, excuses), 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	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cried	parataxis
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Come	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 have	aux
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cried	parataxis
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 excuses	det
16	excuses	excuse	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 have	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 trade	punct
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 trade	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 trade	cop
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 trade	det
21	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 excuses	conj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come in a quote	infinitive			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come in a quote	infinitive			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cry speech: express	past	the king		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have in a quote	future	the king = king	no excuses and this trade	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent excuse=Patient
5	is a in a quote	present	no excuses and this trade	this trade	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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