The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 22
“Peace be upon you,” said the king, giving the usual country salutation.
Who acts: Peace, king · What happens: be, say, give · To what, where: usual country salutation · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peace, 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 you | nsubj |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 you | cop |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 you | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 you | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 giving | punct |
| 12 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 salutation | det |
| 14 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 salutation | amod |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 salutation | compound |
| 16 | salutation | salutation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 giving | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | infinitive | Peace | upon you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | give | gerund | the king not said here | the usual country salutation | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salutation=Theme |
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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