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The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 72

“That’s the very thing I came here for,” he answered; “I am quite ready to enter the King’s service.”

Who acts: That, messenger, King · What happens: be, come, answer, enter, service · To what, where: thing, service · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, messenger, 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

punctnsubjcopdetadvmodccompnsubjacl:relcladvmodoblpunctpunctnsubjpunctpunctnsubjcopadvmodccompmarkxcompdetnmod:posscaseobjpunctpunctroot“PUNCTThatPRON’sAUXtheDETveryADVthingNOUNIPRONcameVERBhereADVforADP,PUNCT”PUNCThePRONansweredVERB;PUNCT“PUNCTIPRONamAUXquiteADVreadyADJtoPARTenterVERBtheDETKingPROPN’sPARTserviceNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_6 thingpunct
2ThatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem6 thingnsubj
3’sbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 thingcop
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 thingdet
5veryveryADV_6 thingadvmod
6thingthingNOUNNumber=Sing14 answeredccomp
7IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs8 camensubj
8camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 thingacl:relcl
9herehereADVPronType=Dem8 cameadvmod
10forforADP_8 cameobl
11,,PUNCT_6 thingpunct
12”"PUNCT_6 thingpunct
13hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 answerednsubj
14answeredanswerVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
15;;PUNCT_14 answeredpunct
16“"PUNCT_20 readypunct
17IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs20 readynsubj
18ambeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin20 readycop
19quitequiteADV_20 readyadvmod
20readyreadyADJDegree=Pos14 answeredccomp
21totoPART_22 entermark
22enterenterVERBVerbForm=Inf20 readyxcomp
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 Kingdet
24KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing26 servicenmod:poss
25’s'sPART_24 Kingcase
26serviceserviceNOUNNumber=Sing22 enterobj
27..PUNCT_20 readypunct
28”"PUNCT_20 readypunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is a in a quotepresentThatthe thingtree rules
2come in a quotepastmessengerthe thing not said hereherevn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thing=Theme
3answer speech: assertpastmessengervn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4is in a quotepresentmessengerready propertytree rules
5enter in a quoteto-infinitivemessenger not said herethe King's servicevn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme service=Destination
6service in a quotethe Kingnom service «act transitive»: poss=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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