The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 122
“So be it, then; I give you my royal word.”
Who acts: sire, my · What happens: be, give, word · To what, where: sire, royal word, you
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 (sire, my), 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 | _ | 9 give | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 it | advmod |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 it | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 give | nsubj:outer |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 it | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 give | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 give | nsubj |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 give | iobj |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 word | nmod:poss |
| 12 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 word | amod |
| 13 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | infinitive | sire | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give in a quote | present | sire | my royal word | you | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient word=Theme | ||
| 3 | word in a quote | my | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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