The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 38

Now, I must tell you, in another country a long way off, there reigned a king who had an only son named Ring.

Who acts: I, king · What happens: tell, reign, have, name · To what, where: you, country, king, only son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 tell	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 country	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 country	case
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 country	det
10	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 way	det
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 way	amod
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 off	obl:unmarked
14	off	off	ADV	_	10 country	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 reigned	punct
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 reigned	expl
17	reigned	reign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 king	det
19	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 reigned	obj
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 king	acl:relcl
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 son	det
23	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 son	amod
24	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
25	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 son	acl
26	Ring	Ring	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 named	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	must	I		you	another country	now	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	reign	past	I not said here	a king		there		tree rules
3	have	past	a king	a only son				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
4	name	participle		a only son not said here				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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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