The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 49
He will tell his secret to me, and will find a place in the middle of my heart.”
Who acts: king · What happens: tell, find · To what, where: secret, me, place, middle · 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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | aux |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 secret | nmod:poss |
| 5 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 find | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 find | cc |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 find | aux |
| 11 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 find | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 middle | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 middle | det |
| 16 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 find | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 heart | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 heart | nmod:poss |
| 19 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 middle | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | future | king | king's secret | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent secret=Topic to i=Recipient | |||
| 2 | find | future | a place | the middle of my heart | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic |
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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