The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 32
“Now,” said the king, “you have seen these things and your purpose is fulfilled.”
Who acts: king, you, your · What happens: say, see, fulfil, purpose · To what, where: things, purpose · 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, you, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seen | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 seen | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 seen | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 seen | aux |
| 12 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 things | det |
| 14 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 seen | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fulfilled | cc |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 purpose | nmod:poss |
| 17 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fulfilled | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 fulfilled | aux:pass |
| 19 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 seen | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the king | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present · perfect | you | this things | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | fulfil in a quote | present · passive | your purpose | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | purpose in a quote | your | nom purpose «cognition 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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