The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 7
Several times the king said: “Ask me for something, that I may give it you.
Who acts: king, that · What happens: say, ask, give · To what, where: king, pleasure, you · 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, that), 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 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 times | amod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Ask | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Ask | punct |
| 8 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 Ask | iobj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 something | case |
| 11 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 Ask | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 give | punct |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 give | nsubj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 give | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 give | aux |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Ask | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 give | obj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 give | iobj |
| 19 | . | . | 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 | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | the king = king | for something | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | may | that | pleasure | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient it=Theme |
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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