The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 31
“She could choose no better husband,” said the king, “and if she consents I do.”
Who acts: queen, king · What happens: choose, say, consent, do · To what, where: better husband · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, 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 choose | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 choose | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 choose | aux |
| 4 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | no | no | ADV | _ | 6 better | advmod |
| 6 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 husband | amod |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 choose | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 choose | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 choose | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 do | cc |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 consents | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 consents | nsubj |
| 18 | consents | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | advcl |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 do | nsubj |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose in a quote | could | queen | better husband | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | consent a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | queen | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | present | the king = king | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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