The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 113
“Young man,” said the King, “you are welcome, whoever you may be.
Who acts: Young man, you · What happens: say, be · To what, where: whoever · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Young man, you), 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 | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 2 | Young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 welcome | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 welcome | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 welcome | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 welcome | cop |
| 13 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 whoever | punct |
| 15 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 welcome | obl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 be | nsubj |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 be | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 whoever | cop |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Young man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | welcome property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | infinitive | whoever | 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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