The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 1
“So be it,” said the king; “your land shall be free of all taxes, and Simon the seventh is pardoned.”
Who acts: it, land · What happens: be, say, pardon · To what, where: it, king, Simon seventh · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, land), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 it | advmod |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 it | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 it | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 it | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 free | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 free | punct |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 land | nmod:poss |
| 13 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 free | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 free | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 free | cop |
| 16 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 taxes | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 taxes | det |
| 19 | taxes | tax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 free | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 pardoned | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 pardoned | cc |
| 22 | Simon | Simon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 seventh | compound |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 seventh | det |
| 24 | seventh | seventh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pardoned | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 pardoned | aux:pass |
| 26 | pardoned | pardon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | infinitive | it | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | it | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | shall | your land | of all taxes; free property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pardon in a quote | present · passive | the Simon seventh | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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