The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 81
“I was to come here for the giant, and demand the tax for him,” said the King’s son.
Who acts: son · What happens: come, demand, say · To what, where: tax · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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 come | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 come | mark |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | ccomp |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 come | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 giant | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 giant | det |
| 9 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 come | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 demand | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 demand | cc |
| 12 | demand | demand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 come | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tax | det |
| 14 | tax | tax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 demand | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 demand | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 King | det |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 son | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 King | case |
| 23 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | past | the King's son = son | here | for the giant | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | demand speech: request in a quote | infinitive | the King's son = son not said here | the tax | for Prince | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tax=Precondition | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the King's son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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