The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 55
'The true king of this country,' said he indignantly.
Who acts: true king · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (true 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 king | amod |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 country | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 country | det |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 king | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 king | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 king | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 indignantly | nsubj |
| 12 | indignantly | indignantly | ADV | _ | 10 said | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the true king of this country | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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