The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 109
“Never mind that,” said the King; “as everyone else has come to the palace, let him come too.”
Who acts: King, everyone · What happens: not mind, say, come, let · To what, where: that, palace, King · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, everyone), 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 mind | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 mind | advmod |
| 3 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 mind | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 let | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 let | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 come | mark |
| 13 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 16 come | nsubj |
| 14 | else | else | ADV | _ | 13 everyone | advmod |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | aux |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 let | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 palace | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 palace | det |
| 19 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 21 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 let | obj |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 let | xcomp |
| 24 | too | too | ADV | _ | 23 come | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 let | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind in a quote | infinitive | that | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | present · perfect | everyone | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | let in a quote | infinitive | King | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | come in a quote | infinitive | King not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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