The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 66
The king could hardly speak from alarm, but at last he said:
Who acts: king · What happens: speak, say · To what, where: alarm, last · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 speak | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 speak | aux |
| 4 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 5 speak | advmod |
| 5 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 alarm | case |
| 7 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 speak | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 last | case |
| 11 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 speak | conj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | could | the king | alarm | hardly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | king | last | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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