The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 17
The king filled his cup and called the prince and gave it him and said: “Name your wish! it is yours.”
Who acts: king, sense, your · What happens: fill, call, give, say, name, be · To what, where: cup, prince, sense, wish, yours · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, sense, your), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 filled | nsubj |
| 3 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 cup | nmod:poss |
| 5 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 filled | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 called | cc |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 filled | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gave | cc |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 filled | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | obj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | iobj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gave | conj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 Name | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Name | punct |
| 18 | Name | name | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | parataxis |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wish | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Name | obj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 Name | punct |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 yours | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 yours | cop |
| 24 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 Name | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 Name | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | the king | king's cup | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cup=Patient | ||||
| 2 | call | past | the king not said here | the prince | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | give | past | the king not said here | sense | prince | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient it=Theme | |||
| 4 | say speech: express | past | the king not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | name in a quote | infinitive | your wish | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | sense | yours | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | wish in a quote | your | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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