The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 46
“You will tell another tale,” replied the king, “when you ask him his secret.
Who acts: You, king · What happens: tell, reply, ask · To what, where: tale, secret, 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 (You, king), 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 | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 tale | det |
| 6 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ask | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 ask | punct |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 ask | advmod |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 ask | nsubj |
| 16 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 replied | parataxis |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ask | obj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 secret | nmod:poss |
| 19 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ask | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | future | You | another tale | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | you | king's secret | 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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