The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 20

‘I will tell you who I am,’ said the old man; ‘I am the raspberry king, who reigns over all this kingdom of raspberry bushes, and I have lived here for more than a thousand years.

Who acts: I, old man, raspberry king · What happens: tell, be, say, reign, live · To what, where: you, raspberry king, kingdom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, old man, raspberry king), 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	_	4 tell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	ccomp
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 who	nsubj
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 who	cop
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 king	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 king	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 king	nsubj
18	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 king	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 king	det
20	raspberry	raspberry	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 king	compound
21	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 reigns	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 reigns	nsubj
24	reigns	reign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 king	acl:relcl
25	over	over	ADP	_	28 kingdom	case
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 kingdom	det:predet
27	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 kingdom	det
28	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 reigns	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 bushes	case
30	raspberry	raspberry	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bushes	compound
31	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 kingdom	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 lived	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 lived	cc
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 lived	nsubj
35	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 lived	aux
36	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 said	conj
37	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 lived	advmod
38	for	for	ADP	_	43 years	case
39	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	42 thousand	advmod
40	than	than	ADP	_	39 more	fixed
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 thousand	det
42	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 years	nummod
43	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 lived	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future	I		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	is a	present	I					tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the old man					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is a	present	I	the raspberry king				tree rules
5	reign	present	the raspberry king			all kingdom of raspberry bushes		tree rules
6	live	present · perfect	I			here	year	vn exist-47.1-1 «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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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