The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 89
But the young King spoke: “Who knows for what good purpose he does it?
Who acts: young King, good purpose · What happens: speak, know, do · To what, where: shirt · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young King, good purpose), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 spoke | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 King | amod |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 spoke | nsubj |
| 5 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 knows | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 knows | punct |
| 8 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 knows | nsubj |
| 9 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 spoke | ccomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 what | case |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 knows | obl |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 purpose | amod |
| 13 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 does | nsubj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 does | nsubj |
| 15 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 what | acl:relcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 does | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the young King | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | good purpose | shirt | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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