The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 193
“Now that’s a talent worth having,” said the King to the miller; “if your daughter is as clever as you say, bring her to my palace to-morrow, and I’ll put her to the test.”
Who acts: that, King, daughter, miller · What happens: be, have, say, bring, 'll, put · To what, where: talent, miller, daughter, palace · 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 (that, King, daughter, miller), 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 | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 talent | advmod |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 talent | nsubj |
| 4 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 talent | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 talent | det |
| 6 | talent | talent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 7 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 talent | amod |
| 8 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 worth | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 having | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 worth | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 miller | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 miller | det |
| 16 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 clever | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 clever | punct |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 clever | mark |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 21 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 clever | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 clever | cop |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 clever | advmod |
| 24 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | conj |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 say | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 say | nsubj |
| 27 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 bring | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 say | punct |
| 29 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 clever | parataxis |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 bring | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 palace | case |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 palace | nmod:poss |
| 33 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bring | obl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 morrow | case |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 to | punct |
| 36 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 palace | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 ’ll | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 ’ll | cc |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 ’ll | nsubj |
| 40 | ’ll | 'll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 41 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 ’ll | xcomp |
| 42 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 put | obj |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 test | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 test | det |
| 45 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 put | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 47 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | that | a talent | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | gerund | that not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the King | the miller | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to miller=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | your daughter | clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | the miller = miller | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | bring in a quote | infinitive | daughter | my palace to morrow | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to palace=Destination | ||||
| 7 | 'll in a quote | present | the King = king | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | put in a quote | infinitive | the King = king not said here | daughter | to the test | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal |
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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