The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 76
“We are King Archidej’s labourers.”
Who acts: We · What happens: be · To what, where: labourers
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 (We), 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 | _ | 7 labourers | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 labourers | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 labourers | cop |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 labourers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Archidej | Archidej | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 King | flat |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 King | case |
| 7 | labourers | labourer | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 labourers | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 labourers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | We | King's labourers | 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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