The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 35
Then said the king: “The woman you see there in chains is my wife; she is called Gul, the Rose, and I am Sinaubar, the Cypress.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: say, see, be, call · To what, where: king, woman, chains, wife, Sinaubar · 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 (you, I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 see | nsubj |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 see | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 chains | case |
| 13 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 see | obl |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 wife | cop |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wife | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 called | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 called | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 called | aux:pass |
| 20 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 said | conj |
| 21 | Gul | Gul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 called | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Rose | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Rose | det |
| 24 | Rose | Rose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Gul | flat |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Sinaubar | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Sinaubar | cc |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 Sinaubar | nsubj |
| 28 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 Sinaubar | cop |
| 29 | Sinaubar | Sinaubar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 called | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Cypress | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Cypress | det |
| 32 | Cypress | cypress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Sinaubar | appos |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the king | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present | you | the woman | chains; there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | my wife | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | call in a quote | present · passive | wife | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | I | Sinaubar | tree rules |
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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