The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 44
“By whom?” cried the king, starting up from his throne; “which of the princes may I claim as my son-in-law?”
Who acts: king · What happens: cry, start up, claim · To what, where: throne · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 2 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 whom | case |
| 3 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 cried | obl |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 whom | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 whom | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 starting | punct |
| 10 | starting | start | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 cried | advcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 starting | compound:prt |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 throne | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 throne | nmod:poss |
| 14 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 starting | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 claim | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 claim | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 claim | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 princes | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 princes | det |
| 20 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 which | nmod |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 claim | aux |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 claim | nsubj |
| 23 | claim | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cried | parataxis |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 son | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 son | nmod:poss |
| 26 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 claim | obl |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 law | punct |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 law | case |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 in | punct |
| 30 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 son | nmod |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 claim | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the king | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | start up | gerund | the king not said here | king's throne | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | claim speech: other in a quote | may | the king = king | as my son in law | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=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 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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