The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 28
“Has the king of Busan a great army?” asked King Archidej; “is his country far off?”
What happens: have, ask, be · To what, where: King, country · 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: 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 Has | punct |
| 2 | Has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Busan | case |
| 6 | Busan | Busan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 king | nmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 army | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 army | amod |
| 9 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 army | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 army | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Has | parataxis |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | iobj |
| 14 | Archidej | Archidej | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 King | flat |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 country | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 country | punct |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 country | cop |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 country | nmod:poss |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Has | conj |
| 20 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 off | advmod |
| 21 | off | off | ADV | _ | 19 country | advmod |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Has | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | King | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | king's country | off property | 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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