The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 110
'I would give half my kingdom to the man who will bring her to me,' cried the king, eagerly. '
Who acts: I, man · What happens: give, bring, cry · To what, where: kingdom, man, majesty, me, king
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, man), 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 give | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 7 kingdom | det:predet |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 7 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 man | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obl |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 bring | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 bring | aux |
| 13 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 man | acl:relcl |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bring | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 bring | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cried | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 cried | punct |
| 19 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cried | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 eagerly | punct |
| 23 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 19 cried | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | would | I | my kingdom | the man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme to man=Recipient | |||
| 2 | bring | future | the man | majesty | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to i=Destination | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | I not said here | the king | eagerly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=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 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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