The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 2
‘The thief must have stolen your bottle,’ said the king to the Wizard.
What happens: steal, say · To what, where: thief, king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 6 stolen | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 thief | det |
| 3 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 stolen | aux |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 stolen | aux |
| 6 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | ccomp |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 bottle | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stolen | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stolen | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 stolen | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Wizard | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Wizard | det |
| 16 | Wizard | Wizard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 king | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | must · perfect · passive | the thief | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary bottle=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king | to the Wizard | 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 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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