The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 90

“Good,” said the king; “and Simon the third?”

Who acts: king · What happens: say · 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), 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 Good	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 Simon	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 Simon	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Simon	cc
11	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 third	det
13	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 Simon	amod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 third	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 Simon	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the king						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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