The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 6
‘Well,’ said the king at last, ‘the man who has done this is cleverer than most men, and if he will make himself known to me he shall marry the princess and govern half my kingdom while I am alive, and the whole of it when I am dead.
Who acts: man, I · What happens: say, do, be, make, know, marry · To what, where: king, last, this, Man, me, princess · 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: who acts (man, I), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 last | case |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cleverer | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 cleverer | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cleverer | nsubj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 done | nsubj |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 done | aux |
| 16 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 man | acl:relcl |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 done | obj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 cleverer | cop |
| 19 | cleverer | clever | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 said | parataxis |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 men | case |
| 21 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 men | amod |
| 22 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 cleverer | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 make | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 make | cc |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 make | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 make | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 make | aux |
| 28 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | parataxis |
| 29 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 make | obj |
| 30 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 make | xcomp |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 me | case |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 known | obl |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 marry | nsubj |
| 34 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 marry | aux |
| 35 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 known | parataxis |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 princess | det |
| 37 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 marry | obj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 govern | cc |
| 39 | govern | govern | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 marry | conj |
| 40 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 42 kingdom | det:predet |
| 41 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 42 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 govern | obj |
| 43 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 46 alive | mark |
| 44 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 alive | nsubj |
| 45 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 alive | cop |
| 46 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 govern | advcl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 whole | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 whole | cc |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 whole | det |
| 50 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | parataxis |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 it | case |
| 52 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 whole | obl |
| 53 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 56 dead | advmod |
| 54 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 56 dead | nsubj |
| 55 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 56 dead | cop |
| 56 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 whole | advcl |
| 57 | . | . | 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 | last | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do | present · perfect | the man | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the man | than most men; clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make a condition, not said to happen | future | Man | Man | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | know | participle | Man not said here | me | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | marry | shall | Man | the princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | ||||
| 7 | govern | infinitive | Man not said here | my kingdom | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme | ||||
| 8 | is | present | I | alive property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | is | present | I | dead property | 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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