The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 12
“Many thanks, my brave lads,” said the king; “I see that each of you is indeed a master of his trade.
Who acts: Many thanks, each, king · What happens: say, see, be, trade · To what, where: king, master · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many thanks, each, 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 | _ | 3 thanks | punct |
| 2 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thanks | amod |
| 3 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 10 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lads | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 lads | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lads | amod |
| 7 | lads | lad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thanks | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanks | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanks | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 see | nsubj |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 master | mark |
| 18 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 master | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 each | nmod |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 master | cop |
| 22 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 24 master | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 master | det |
| 24 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 see | ccomp |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 trade | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 trade | nmod:poss |
| 27 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 master | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Many thanks and my brave lads | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present | Many thanks and my brave lads = thanks | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | each | a master | of king's trade; indeed property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | trade in a quote | king | nom trade «act 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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