The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 28
Then the king called him back, saying: “If nothing else will satisfy you, open your mouth.”
Who acts: king, nothing · What happens: call back, say, satisfy, open · To what, where: shepherd, you, mouth · 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 (king, nothing), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 called | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | nsubj |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 called | obj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 called | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saying | punct |
| 8 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 called | advcl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 satisfy | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 satisfy | punct |
| 11 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 satisfy | mark |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 satisfy | nsubj |
| 13 | else | else | ADV | _ | 12 nothing | advmod |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 satisfy | aux |
| 15 | satisfy | satisfy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 saying | ccomp |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 satisfy | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 open | punct |
| 18 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 satisfy | conj |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 open | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 satisfy | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 satisfy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call back speech: assert | past | the king | shepherd | then | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | the king not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | satisfy a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | nothing | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | open in a quote | infinitive | nothing not said here | your mouth | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=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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