The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 173
“One of these,” said he, “belongs to the poor, one to the King, and the third is yours.”
Who acts: One, man, third · What happens: say, belong, be · To what, where: yours · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, man, third), 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 One | punct |
| 2 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 said | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 these | case |
| 4 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 One | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 One | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 One | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 belongs | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 belongs | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 belongs | punct |
| 11 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 poor | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 poor | det |
| 14 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 belongs | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 poor | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 King | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 King | det |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 one | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 yours | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 yours | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 third | det |
| 23 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 yours | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 yours | cop |
| 25 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 said | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | One of these | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | belong in a quote | present | man | to the poor | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the third | yours | 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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