The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 3
So he sent for them all, and, after speaking to them kindly, he added:
Who acts: king · What happens: send, speak, add · To what, where: sons · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, 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 (king), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 sent | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | obl |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 added | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 added | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 and | punct |
| 10 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 11 speaking | mark |
| 11 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 added | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 speaking | obl |
| 14 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 11 speaking | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 speaking | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 added | nsubj |
| 17 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | king | for sons = son | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | king not said here | sons = son | kindly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | add speech: assert | past | king | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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