The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 29
“Give him to me, I’m sure he will tell me the secret; or, if not, I have a daughter who is like the Morning Star, and he is sure to tell it to her.”
Who acts: you, king, daughter · What happens: give, be, tell, have · To what, where: king, secret, daughter, princess · 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 (you, king, daughter), 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 | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 2 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Give | iobj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Give | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ’m | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 ’m | nsubj |
| 8 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Give | advcl |
| 9 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ’m | xcomp |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 tell | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 tell | aux |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sure | ccomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 tell | iobj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 secret | det |
| 15 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tell | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 have | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 have | cc |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 or | punct |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 not | mark |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 or | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 or | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 have | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Give | parataxis |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 daughter | det |
| 25 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 have | obj |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 Star | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 Star | cop |
| 28 | like | like | ADP | _ | 31 Star | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Star | det |
| 30 | Morning | Morning | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Star | compound |
| 31 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 daughter | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 sure | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 sure | cc |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 sure | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 sure | cop |
| 36 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Give | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 tell | mark |
| 38 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 sure | xcomp |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 tell | obj |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 her | case |
| 41 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 tell | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | imperative | you not said here | king | to the king of the Magyars = king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to i=Recipient | |||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | the king of the Magyars = king | sure property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | future | king | the secret | the king of the Magyars = king | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient secret=Topic | |||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | the king of the Magyars = king | a daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | a daughter | like the Morning Star | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | king | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | tell speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | king not said here | secret | princess | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to she=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.
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