The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 9
“Now,” said the king, “if you can shoot that bird I will reward you.”
Who acts: king, you · What happens: say, shoot, reward · To what, where: bird, you · 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 (king, you), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | 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 | _ | 13 shoot | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 shoot | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 shoot | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 shoot | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 shoot | aux |
| 13 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 bird | det |
| 15 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shoot | obj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 reward | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 reward | aux |
| 18 | reward | reward | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 bird | acl:relcl |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 reward | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 shoot | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 shoot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the king | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | shoot a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | you | that bird | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reward in a quote | future | the king = king | that bird not said here | you | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/5/9/