The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 87
She went to the king and said: “Dear father, some merchants have arrived with the most splendid wares.
Who acts: speech, merchants · What happens: go, say, arrive · To what, where: Dear father · 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 (speech, merchants), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 king | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 father | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 father | punct |
| 10 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 father | amod |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 arrived | punct |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 merchants | det |
| 14 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 arrived | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 arrived | aux |
| 16 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 father | acl:relcl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 wares | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wares | det |
| 19 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 20 splendid | advmod |
| 20 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 wares | amod |
| 21 | wares | ware | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 arrived | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | speech | to the king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | speech not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | arrive in a quote | present · perfect | some merchants | Dear father not said here | with the splendid wares | 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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