The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 15
'And you really think you can cure me?' asked the king.
Who acts: you · What happens: think, cure, ask · To what, where: me, king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 think | cc |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 think | advmod |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 cure | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 cure | aux |
| 8 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 think | ccomp |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 cure | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cure | can | you | me | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer i=Source | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | you not said here | the king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=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 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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