The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 71
‘Bring out your son,’ cried he to the king, ‘as you promised me seven years and a day since.’
Who acts: son, you · What happens: bring out, cry, promise · To what, where: son, king, me
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, you), 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 | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 2 | Bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | parataxis |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 Bring | compound:prt |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Bring | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 king | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 promised | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 promised | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 promised | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 promised | nsubj |
| 17 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | conj |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 promised | iobj |
| 19 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 years | nummod |
| 20 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 promised | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 day | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 day | det |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 years | conj |
| 24 | since | since | ADV | _ | 20 years | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring out | infinitive | your son | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent son=Patient | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | son | the king | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | past | you | me | year | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=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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