The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 81

“His mother?” said the king; “you are too old, surely, to have so young a son!”

Who acts: mother, you · What happens: say, be, have · To what, where: king, young son · 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 (mother, you), 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	_	3 mother	punct
2	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 mother	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 mother	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 old	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 old	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 old	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 old	cop
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 old	advmod
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 surely	punct
16	surely	surely	ADV	_	14 old	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	19 have	mark
19	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	parataxis
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 young	advmod
21	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 son	amod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 son	det
23	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	obj
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	king's mother	the king		tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	you		old, surely property	tree rules
3	have in a quote	to-infinitive		a young son		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient

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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