The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 45
Said the king to himself: “These people have travelled far and beheld many lands.
Who acts: king, people · What happens: say, travell, behold · To what, where: king, many lands · 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, people), 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 | Said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 himself | case |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 travelled | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 travelled | punct |
| 8 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 people | det |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 travelled | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 travelled | aux |
| 11 | travelled | travell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Said | conj |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 travelled | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 beheld | cc |
| 14 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 travelled | conj |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lands | amod |
| 16 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 beheld | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the king | king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | travell in a quote | present · perfect | this people | far property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | behold in a quote | past | this people not said here | many lands | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer land=Stimulus |
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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