The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 75
“Alas!” said the King, “I set great store by that marvelous ring; nevertheless, you shall have it.”
Who acts: King, you · What happens: say, set, have · To what, where: great store, store · 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 (King, 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 set | nsubj |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 store | amod |
| 13 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 ring | case |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 ring | det |
| 16 | marvelous | marvelous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ring | amod |
| 17 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 have | punct |
| 19 | nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 23 have | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 nevertheless | punct |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 have | nsubj |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 have | aux |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 have | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 have | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | set in a quote | present | the King = king | great store | by that marvelous ring | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent store=Theme by ring=Destination | |||
| 3 | have in a quote | shall | you | store | nevertheless property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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