The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 32
“Do you not know, then?” demanded the king.
Who acts: you, king · What happens: not know, demand · 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 (you, 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 | _ | 10 demanded | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 demanded | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 know | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 10 | demanded | demand | 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 demanded | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 demanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | you | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | demand speech: request | past | the king | vn require-103-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
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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