The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 13
“O king!” replied the prince, “it is to answer it that I am here; I will not withdraw.”
Who acts: king, riddle · What happens: reply, be, not withdraw · To what, where: prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, riddle), 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 king | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 king | discourse |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 answer | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 answer | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 answer | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 answer | cop |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 answer | mark |
| 14 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 replied | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 answer | obj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 here | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 here | nsubj |
| 18 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 here | cop |
| 19 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 answer | advcl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 withdraw | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 withdraw | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 withdraw | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 withdraw | advmod |
| 24 | withdraw | withdraw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 replied | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 withdraw | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 withdraw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | king | the prince | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | riddle | answer property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | king | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not withdraw in a quote | future | king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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