The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 22
“If he had a thousand souls, I would kill them all,” swore the king.
Who acts: boy, princess · What happens: have, kill, swear · To what, where: thousand souls, souls, king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, princess), 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 | _ | 11 kill | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 had | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 kill | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 thousand | det |
| 6 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 souls | nummod |
| 7 | souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 kill | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 kill | aux |
| 11 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 swore | ccomp |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 kill | obj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kill | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 kill | punct |
| 16 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 swore | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 swore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | boy | thousand souls | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Patient | ||||
| 2 | kill in a quote | would | princess | souls = soul | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | swear | past | the king | 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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