The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 96
“Good,” said the king again; “and what has Simon the fourth learnt?”
Who acts: king · What happens: say, learn · 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 | 17 learnt | parataxis |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Good | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 learnt | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 learnt | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 has | cc |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 has | nsubj |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 learnt | aux |
| 14 | Simon | Simon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 has | obj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fourth | det |
| 16 | fourth | fourth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 has | obj |
| 17 | learnt | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 learnt | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 learnt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the king | again | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | learn in a quote | present · perfect | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=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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